/lit/ - Literature

I have this eery feeling about the idea of Similarity, that it allows precognition to be real by combining two similar representations and connecting them outside of time without causality. Seers, prophetic dreamers or however you want to call them can "precollect" future events, because they are hidden behind a representation that shares similarity with all past, future and present similar representations, just as we recollect knowledge, namely that the thought you have is similar to a past thought.

This is my favorite painting. Turner depicts, in his old age, the steam trains which were revolutionizing Britain at the time. Imagine how an old man must have felt to see something so huge and unnatural going so fast, cutting through the landscapes of his childhood. There’s even a tiny rabbit, now eclipsed as a symbol of swiftness