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Desire does not move in straight lines. It curves. It sustains itself through distance, delay, and asymmetry, forming a logical orbit rather than a trajectory toward fulfilment. What appears in lived experience as longing or pursuit is not a failure of arrival but the mechanism by which relational systems remain open rather than collapse into […]
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Hollow Hero
The mythology of the hero rests on an abstraction: that one can act with decisive force, impose order or belief, and remain untouched. In lived experience this is impossible. Violence and coercion, whether physical, institutional, or symbolic, leave residues that manifest as trauma — what in clinical terms is described as post-traumatic stress. The nervous […]
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All my hollow sorrows haunt me.
I am as though that myth that as soon as you stop believing in me, I cease to exist. The beliefs we hold are very much like this but it is (also) we who stop existing when they vanish. For this reason, but perhaps not only for this reason, we all find ourselves committing to […]
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Fiction
Life can (and most certainly should) be enjoyed, where and when possible, but don’t forget to question the nature of the reality with which you have been presented because the truth, the secret hiding in plain sight, is that almost everything we believe and say or think is little more than myth, fiction and the […]
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Perseus’ Shield
No one quite does lateral and innovative thinking like the protagonists of Ancient Greek mythology…
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Disentangling Doctor Who
Spoilers: Doctor Who unwittingly generates all of the anomalies and enigmas he appears to stumble across…
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Mischievous Mythology
The central fictional narrative theme is that of equal opportunity for all…
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An Inversion of Useful Selves
Whoever you think you are, you are probably (also) actually something quite other than that internal self-representation you hold so close…
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