I know it's been a while since this has been posted, but I only discovered it just now and read the whole series in one go. It is very good, and it makes me very sad. I was driving and I saw this orange cat run over, it made me so mad. The other day I was reading Ovid's metamorphoses, and there's this scene of the hunt of the Calydonian boar, and it says that Nestor barely escaped the boar's rage by using his spear as a pole vault, jumping into a tree... Tears came to my eyes, such a world seems so far away and yet so much more real than anything I see today. People will say "but that's just a story" but that's wrong... These people's whole lives have less reality than even a second of Nestor's existence. Best part of this series is that it makes it very clear what Nietzsche meant by "the great down-going", or even what BAP talks about in his last aphorism. It does not suffice to live by oneself in the mountains, like a hermit or Ted Kaczynski, to larp like Henry David Thoreau, even though this might be tempting. Such a way of living will always be tainted by a certain emptiness, by a knowledge that you are fooling yourself... To return to nature does not mean to escape into nature but to make the unnatural natural again. But how... I do not know... I am mentally ill writing from the psych ward. Everything needs to change... I hope you don't read this because you are living in the forest working out with frens and pumas, but if you do read this, I would like to thank you, know that you have brought something beautiful into this world, and I pray that you are a seer, that your vision comes into being. Thank you
I know it's been a while since this has been posted, but I only discovered it just now and read the whole series in one go. It is very good, and it makes me very sad. I was driving and I saw this orange cat run over, it made me so mad. The other day I was reading Ovid's metamorphoses, and there's this scene of the hunt of the Calydonian boar, and it says that Nestor barely escaped the boar's rage by using his spear as a pole vault, jumping into a tree... Tears came to my eyes, such a world seems so far away and yet so much more real than anything I see today. People will say "but that's just a story" but that's wrong... These people's whole lives have less reality than even a second of Nestor's existence. Best part of this series is that it makes it very clear what Nietzsche meant by "the great down-going", or even what BAP talks about in his last aphorism. It does not suffice to live by oneself in the mountains, like a hermit or Ted Kaczynski, to larp like Henry David Thoreau, even though this might be tempting. Such a way of living will always be tainted by a certain emptiness, by a knowledge that you are fooling yourself... To return to nature does not mean to escape into nature but to make the unnatural natural again. But how... I do not know... I am mentally ill writing from the psych ward. Everything needs to change... I hope you don't read this because you are living in the forest working out with frens and pumas, but if you do read this, I would like to thank you, know that you have brought something beautiful into this world, and I pray that you are a seer, that your vision comes into being. Thank you