idk where I picked up the ability to just be comfortable with not fucking understanding what im reading, maybe it was learning to read before I was in kindergarten and naturally blasting through books I couldn't possibly grasp or contextualize and just being fine with that because I was a tiny child, but I am begging everyone reading this to stop trying to Solve books and movies and even ARGs and spooky YouTube projects.
you must let the unanswered questions linger while you absorb the rest of the text. the author is using questions and ambiguities to create landscapes in your mind. the best kind of reading gifts you with questions you do not answer until years later, or never. the questions are gifts because they make you wonder about things, sometimes for the rest of your life
please just chill out. experience a narrative. a major factor of many challenging and grown up narratives in all mediums, written or otherwise, is ambiguity and mystery and a lack of answers. this type of negative space in good storytelling allows the reader to expand to fill that space. approaching everything you read or watch with a gamer mindset is anti-intellectual, and will prevent you from experiencing the pace and Vibe of a story because you will be stopping every four words to try to answer every single question raised by the text. that's not the correct way to read things. the unanswered question is itself a narrative tool. "[popular prestige television show] FINALLY SOLVED! (1:34:06)" fuck yourself. fuck Off. you are the enemy of all art. you are a philistine and a ruiner
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