A dream in the sand

Shades of Nietzsche!

you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

The endless play of interpretation; the hermeneutics of the open text; meander.

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

My economics teacher used to tell me that money is cheap but resources are expensive. In honour of him: jumpscares are cheap but philosophy is expensive.

Internal plurality must be respected; time must be represented; change must be demonstrated.

formative years? aren’t they all?

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

Very Daoist to say that all things are changing and that death is merely another change different in quantity and not type; very Buddhist to say that the true realisation is that things have no svabhava; the question of whether to locate this in ontology or epistemology is a vexed one; univocity of being comes in at least from Duns Scotus and I want to find a non-Deleuzian way of asserting it without illusion or allusion.

count dracula? uhhh ok. one

🧛 nathing vrong vith me

“but if i communicate it perfectly then they will understand me” WRONG 10,000 years of suffering

They can understand - and still disagree. "If I can make them understand, they will agree with me!" Not how it works.

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[ID: Jeremy Strong of Succession saying "I thought it made sense dramaturgically." /End ID]