Pedantic footnote no one should care about: what Grant Morrison describes here sounds more like “the purification of the lokas,” which is part of the Dzogchen ngöndro (preliminary practices), than like tögal.
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I can't remember the correct form of the dancing bear/singing pig proverb here, the one that ends 'what's impressive is that it does it at all'
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Morrison's core tradition is chaos magick, so one expects a certain degree of carelessness about the fine points.
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Anyway, bottom line is me waving my hands vaguely at the idea that 'fluidity' has something to offer in understanding the characters and their dynamic, and maybe (less sure) vice versa.
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Thank you! I make a distinction between “atomized” and “fluid”—basically, whether partial coherence is reintroduced on a creative, impermanent basis. Do either or both characters seem fluid rather than atomized?
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The Joker, pretty obviously. The Joker has no special abilities, no consistent skillset, no concrete assets, no stable history and no real name. Somehow this makes him one of the most important and frightening beings in the universe.
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He's constantly reconstructed around a few fixed points, everything else is a palimpsest. Morrison's Batman is more arcane. Morrison tried to take Batman's entire history, in and out of the comics, and enfold it into a single persona who could have been all of those people.
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One could possibly say if the Joker constantly annihilates his own self in order to become himself, Batman preserves himself while transcending himself.
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But both characters embody "partial coherence...reintroduced on a creative, impermanent basis", which may explain why they counter each other so effectively.
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This is really interesting! Ok for me to cite, with link to your tweets, in my reply to @vervaeke_john ?
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