god's problem child

The avoidance of the puddle would be precisely the kind of superb detail that, say, Tolstoy might flourish; War and Peace has an execution scene very close in spirit to Orwell’s essay, and it may well be that Orwell basically cribbed the detail from Tolstoy. In War and Peace, Pierre witnesses a man being executed by the French, and notices that, just before death, the man adjusts the blindfold at the back of his head, because it is uncomfortably tight. The avoidance of the puddle, the fiddling with the blindfold—these are what might be called irrelevant or superfluous details. They are not explicable; in fiction, they exist to denote precisely the inexplicable. This is one of the “effects” of realism, of “realistic” style. 

But Orwell’s essay, assuming it records an actual occurrence, shows us that such fictional effects are not merely conventionally irrelevant, or formally arbitrary, but have something to tell us about the irrelevance of reality itself (…) There was no logical reason for the condemned man to avoid the puddle. It was pure remembered habit. Life, then, will always contain an inevitable surplus, a margin of the gratuitous, a realm in which there is always more than we need: more things, more impressions, more memories, more habits, more words, more happiness, more unhappiness. 

WHY is the fucking AIR out here TOUCHING ME

Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series Pairing: Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Gideon Nav Rating: T Tags: Written in the style of Disco Elysium, Angst, Memory Loss, Canon Typical Lobotomy

1. Pledge your eternal loyalty to your Lord. 2. [DEBTOR - Challenging 12] Ask God to restore your house. 3. [SALTWATER - Godly 16] TEAR OUT HIS HEART. > 4. [NEMESIS - Legendary 14] Beg for the life of Gideon Nav.

YOU - “Please undo what I’ve done, Lord. I will never ask anything of you, ever again, if you just give me back the life of Gideon Nav.”

just stop your crying, it's a sign of the times // Project Hail Mary (2026)

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