/lit/ - Literature

>>12000618
it might be the case that in the final analysis the best i can reasonably hope for is to have sparked something of interest *in someone else.* because in terms of bringing it all home in a kind of Wagnerian sense i am almost certain that this is not a possibility for me. something more like an Instruction Manual on How to Survive Without Oxygen, or whatever analogy for pic rel you want to come up with, maybe this.

Confucius was a largely frustrated man in his life, Augustine no doubt also. those guys i can relate to. if you're hoping for some kind of moonshot, i honestly don't know what it could look like. all i can really do is share my own curious homebrew computer virus that has made simply being conscious itself both more painful and more interesting than i once would have imagined, back when i thought the world made sense. it doesn't make sense, and yet it does. there is a crazy wisdom line i like:

>the bad news is that you're falling through the sky, and there is no parachute. the good news is, there's no ground either.

that's from Chogyam Trungpa. i'm hoping to put something together that is "grounded" in place of this, but whatever it is, it will be highly unorthodox.