Inside the Infiniverse | Part 3

In this third installment of Inside the Infiniverse, Mookie Spitz dives even deeper into the opening Episode of his new sci-fi novel, Jonnie Fazzoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine. What begins as Penny Pitz’ routine interview for her Thrillionaires Under 30 list mutates into something far more volatile—a Gen Z date masquerading as journalism, where attraction and revulsion keep flipping the table.

Penny walks into Jonnie Fazzoolie’s Chicago penthouse expecting a clown. She finds a barefoot, six-foot-eight disaster who embodies everything she hates about the men of her generation—reckless, narcissistic, a fraud who lives for attention yet can’t even succeed at that. 

And yet, she can’t stop watching him. Not just an interview; their first meeting is a collision of opposites. Penny, with her meticulous lists and craving for meaning, meets Jonnie, a dopamine-starved man-child who thrives in chaos. Their verbal sparring, flirting, and thinly veiled hostility play out like a twisted date where both are simultaneously turned on and disgusted by each other.

Meanwhile, Jonnie, oblivious as ever, wingsuits off his balcony, spirals around skyscrapers, and lands to grab a Starbucks like it’s nothing. His failures pile up, yet he keeps moving—unapologetic, shameless, oddly free. Penny, shaken to her core, leaves disgusted but unable to purge him from her mind.

But this episode doesn’t stop at awkward sexual tension. Enter Alice—the omniscient, omnipresent entity whose unrequited love powers the novel’s cosmic engine. Alice doesn’t just haunt the edges of the story; she actively intervenes. Jealous of Penny’s attraction to Jonnie, Alice humiliates her, derailing her moment of reckless liberation with a surreal accident that catapults her into a void of cold isolation. 

In this abyss, Penny experiences the same endless loneliness Alice has endured for eons. It’s punishment, yes—but it’s also a twisted gift. Through suffering, Penny is forced to confront the repressed trauma she’s buried since childhood, the wounds that drive her need to control everything and everyone.

Mookie pulls apart this chapter with ruthless self-awareness. He frames the Penny-Jonnie encounter as a microcosm of Gen Z dating: women climbing ladders of success while men spiral in performative chaos, both drawn to what repels them. He explores how Alice’s jealousy and gift force Penny into self-recognition, setting her on a collision course with her own buried past.

This episode is part commentary, part confession, and part existential thrill ride. Expect wingsuit madness, sexual paradox, riddle games that hint at Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, and an entity that weaponizes love itself. Penny thinks she’s just interviewing a loser. Instead, she steps into the machinery of something far bigger—something that will break her down and rebuild her.

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