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Everything’s a metaphor.”
It’s just like Yeats said: In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there’s no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. Just like we see with Eichmann.
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
What you need to do is move from reason that observes to reason that acts.
‘If a pistol appears in a story, eventually it’s got to be fired.’
Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences.
