SwansSoilMe/SwansSaveMe
Chymist
Is this the place to make comments?...
Oh God, footnote 8 of the first chapter is fantabulous! What glee (maybe?). Stickin' it to 'em all... I mean, what great writing for a footnote; it's like the distillation of one of TL's stories, one of the short-shorts perhaps, like it could go in NOCTUARY.
Page 19: Regarding "meaning...ease." Later in a footnote TL balances this statement, but here I was saying, "Wait -- people do get unhappy and wonder where's the meaning even when at ease, sometimes especially so (traditional tales of the rich Gautam Buddha?). Now, if someone's actually euphoric, then certainly that feeling is self-justified and he/she will probably not be searching through that philosophy encyclopedia.
P. 20: How do we know we'll go extinct if we don't really know we will die (see pages back)? And if we do, maybe it's not the end of consciousness, which sometimes sounds like a stand-in for God, albeit a cryptic and endlessly forbearant one. Maybe it will survive/thrive/arise in some other life-form, if hypothetically it has a Grand purpose... Again, later, in the footnotes again, TL clarifies this somewhat.
I'm enjoying the read. Guess I'll stick around till I finish it.
Oh God, footnote 8 of the first chapter is fantabulous! What glee (maybe?). Stickin' it to 'em all... I mean, what great writing for a footnote; it's like the distillation of one of TL's stories, one of the short-shorts perhaps, like it could go in NOCTUARY.
Page 19: Regarding "meaning...ease." Later in a footnote TL balances this statement, but here I was saying, "Wait -- people do get unhappy and wonder where's the meaning even when at ease, sometimes especially so (traditional tales of the rich Gautam Buddha?). Now, if someone's actually euphoric, then certainly that feeling is self-justified and he/she will probably not be searching through that philosophy encyclopedia.
P. 20: How do we know we'll go extinct if we don't really know we will die (see pages back)? And if we do, maybe it's not the end of consciousness, which sometimes sounds like a stand-in for God, albeit a cryptic and endlessly forbearant one. Maybe it will survive/thrive/arise in some other life-form, if hypothetically it has a Grand purpose... Again, later, in the footnotes again, TL clarifies this somewhat.
I'm enjoying the read. Guess I'll stick around till I finish it.