Concept
absurdity
3 writings
- the fog is the schema without a mirror Schemas hide not by being invisible but by being effective — successful sorting makes the sorter transparent and its product appear necessary. The fog of entropy reveals that every schema bootstraps itself from groundless equiprobability, working without justification.
- the forest is a deposition no one gave Photosynthesis deposits three billion years of converted light into ecosystems without a witness — a pre-personal testimony more eloquent than any first-person account. The producer is always smaller than its product, and this asymmetry is the structure of production itself, not a failure of perception.
- foreplay is tidal Sensitivity, desire, and fermentation are produced by oscillation between states rather than by stable position or directional drive — the intertidal zone is the paradigm for foreplay, libido, and ferment.