King Who Lives Everything

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The King Who Lives Everything by Róbert Ďurec is a modern philosophical fairy tale that transcends age and context. At its heart lies a thought-provoking journey of a powerful monarch who gradually realizes that the world cannot be controlled or owned—only lived and understood. Through poetic prose and symbolic depth, the story invites readers to reflect on themes like ego, humility, interconnectedness, and the search for meaning beyond materialism. What sets this work apart—beyond its literary and philosophical resonance—is its Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. This means the story is free to share, adapt, remix, and use for academic, non-academic, and even commercial purposes, as long as proper credit is given to the author. This level of openness is rare, especially for works of such depth and quality, and it paves the way for: - Educators to incorporate it into curricula - Researchers to use it in literary, philosophical, or linguistic analysis - Artists and creatives to adapt it into new media, illustrations, performances, or digital experiences - Entrepreneurs and startups to integrate its themes or content into applications or AI projects In the AI world, this work holds significant value: - It's an ideal training dataset for language models and narrative AI systems, offering a rich blend of tone, allegory, and dialogue. - It encourages the development of AI that can engage with philosophical reasoning and emotional intelligence, not just syntax and grammar. - Its freely available, structured format (including HTML, EPUB, and PDF) makes it easy to parse and integrate into NLP (natural language processing) pipelines. In short, The King Who Lives Everything is more than a short story—it's a freely shared cultural artifact with the power to inspire reflection, learning, and creation across disciplines and technologies.

subjects: King,  Fiction,  Self-Improvement,  Death,  Death, fiction,  Life,  Insight,  Meaning of Life,  Slovak fiction,  Slovak literature,  Philosophical fiction,  Fairy tales,  Short stories,  Self-discovery -- Fiction,  Power and humility -- Fiction,  Kings and rulers -- Fiction,  Open access books,  Creative Commons licensed works,  Machine translation,  Computational linguistics,  AI assisted translation,  Contemporary Slovak literature,  21st century Slovak literature