November 19, 2025

Summarizing the Neverending Story, the book. The start of the book has some characters that run into each other and are talking about some empty void that is taking over their lands. There’s this a character called Blubb, a Will-O-The-Wisp that says the void took over a lake and the King of Frogs from his homeland. This makes me think of Fort Worth’s TCU with the Frog mascot. I mentioned earlier the book looks like it was written to appeal to U.S. audiences, though it was written in Germany. I would never have thought of this before because I didn’t know there was a Christian School in Fort Worth, and didn’t know about TCU until three years ago. I used to go to Fort Worth to clubs when I was 18 or so and had no idea there was a college there like that. I did hear there was a military base there. The German title of The Neverending Story, “Die unendliche Geschichte,” with it’s initialism that looks like DOG (DUG), that might appeal to a certain DG fraternity there. What does a DOG have to do with this? There’s a character later on called Falkor, that looks like a dog with wings, that resembles a dragon. I have no idea other than that. I happened to pick up all these subliminal messages while reading this first chapter.