All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
To tell my story I have to start far in the past. If I could, I’d have to go back much farther yet, to the very earliest years of my childhood and even beyond them to my distant origins.
When authors write novels, they usually act as if they were God and could completely survey and comprehend some person’s history and present it as if God were telling it to Himself, totally unveiled, in its essence at all points. I can’t, any more than those authors can. But my story is more important to me than any author’s is to him, because it’s my own; it’s the story of a human being—not an invented, potential, ideal, or otherwise nonexistent person, but a real, unique, living one. To be sure, people today have less of an idea than ever before what a really living person is; in fact, human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in car-loads.1 If we weren’t something more than unique individuals, if we could really be totally dispatched from the world by a bullet, it would no longer make sense to tell stories. But each person is not only himself, he is also the unique, very special point, important and noteworthy in every instance, where the phenomena of the world meet, once only and never again in the same way. And so every person’s story is important, eternal, divine; and so every person, to the extent that he lives and fulfills nature’s will, is wondrous and deserving of full attention. In each of us spirit has become form, in each of us the created being suffers, in each of us a redeemer is crucified.
[1]. The First World War was still raging at the time of writing.
Not many people nowadays know what man is. Many feel it and therefore die more easily, just as I shall die more easily when I have finished writing this story.
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
Every person’s life is a journey toward himself, the attempt at a journey, the intimation of a path. No person has ever been completely himself, but each one strives to become so, some gropingly, others more lucidly, according to his abilities. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant. Many a one is a human being above and a fish below. But each one is a gamble of Nature, a hopeful attempt at forming a human being. We all have a common origin, the Mothers,2 we all come out of the same abyss; but each of us, a trial throw of the dice from the depths, strives toward his own goal. We can understand one another, but each of us can only interpret himself.
[2]. Perhaps merely “our mothers,” but in view of the mythological nature of this novel, almost surely a reference to the “Mothers,” primordial earth goddesses, in Acts One and Two of the Second Part of Goethe’s Faust.
THE MIND THAT WAS BUT FORGOTTEN
The ancient myths that are only remembered as legends and thus non verifiable are mysteries of an unknown mind that we all share upon.
Clever and cunning minds strive to dublicate what already was and A.I. is their bitch handmaiden armed with the hammer forged by buffoon gods.
Within the category of mythology, there are various types of myths. Creation and collapse of one's creation and then the embarking of The Hero's journey of understanding of GOD and the nature of reality from a historical and psychological awareness of foreveness is the myth of ulta consciousness.
One legend I enjoy is the legend explaining the Milky Way, created by Heracles when he was a baby. His father, Zeus , was fond of his son , who was born of the mortal woman Alcmene . Zeus decided to let the infant Heracles suckle on his divine wife Hera's milk when she was asleep, an act which would endow the baby with godlike qualities . When Hera woke up and realized that she was breastfeeding an unknown infant, she pushed him away and the spurting milk became the Milky Way.
One cannot examine this story and gain any wisdom from it other than delusions of grandeur without first understanding and experiencing the category of myths mentioned earlier in this dripify artilect mindfullness imagined writing, but with that said, The 1978 movie Animal House comes to mind where Professor Jennings and Katy and Boone are getting stoned to the bejesus and Boone points out in uncontrollable non sense that our solar system could be like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being.
In this story it seems that the giant liked to jerk off a lot.
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