In literature and gaming, this concept manifests as the "bad timeline" that refuses to collapse. Think of the of the Purgatorial circles in Dante, or the endless, gray repetition of a time-loop horror story. It is evil not because it destroys, but because it sustains.
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Persistent evil can be understood as a state of affairs where malevolent entities, events, or actions continue to occur, often with a sense of repetition or cyclical nature. This phenomenon can manifest in various forms, such as: persistent evil intermezzo