6/ We want answers like we want to take a suit to a tailor and have it fitted. The suit, being continuously crinkled and stretched by the very nature of our own metamorphoses, our human condition, never quite fits when holding up that imaginary mirror.
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17/ My beloved Henry Miller wrote “Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.” It is through chaos that one arrives at this certainty, and through giving up the ghost of that elusive mirror.
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@IntegralStory is of course, correct, in pointing out that I have omitted many aspects of the story of Narcissus in my using it in this impromptu thread. The actual myth itself is a subtler and more meaningful affair than what I portrayed, and is recommended to all.Show this thread
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thanks for this wonderful thread - if we wish to grow, we must crush the mirror
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