How does a drowning person call for help? A bad metaphor: a drowning person flounders and has no spare resources to call out with. How does a drowning intellect call for help? The first thing to go is respectability, then conventionality, then complexity, and lastly aesthetics
They were taken in by the commonality of repeating patterns of aesthetic rigor mortis in dead souls, it's correspondence to elaborate living tissue long since necrotized. Sometimes people come back from the dead. Solve and Coagula. But no recipe half-followed produces results.