Every thing is at least three things: itself, part of something else, and part of everything else.
expressing despair
An informal but nevertheless accurate indicator of the health of a corporation's 'culture' and the morale of its employees is the amount of dried sperm on the doors and walls of the men's toilet cubicles.
the end of reasons
There's no reason why there must be a reason for everything. There are reasons for lots of things, but not all things. We exist because there is at least one universe in which we can exist. Why is this so? No reason. And certainly no need for an Anthropic Principle, weak or strong.
how the mighty have fallen
It takes just one small shy instance to poison a mighty generality.
dichotomies
In the war between life and non-life, all beings that are alive are allies. In the war between being and non-being, all things that exist are allies. Absence of life is not the only variety of death. Non-existence is another.
NIGHTMERRIES: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF DARKNESS This so-called "book" will chew you up, spit you out, and leave you twitching and frothing on the carpet. More than 60 dark and feculent fictions (read ‘em and weep) copiously illustrated by over 20 grotesque images you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
AWAREWOLF & OTHER CRHYMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Vot could be Verse?) We all hate poetry, right? But we might make an exception for this sick and twisted stuff. This devil's banquet of adults-only offal features more than 50 satanic sonnets, vitriolic verses and odious odes.
MANIC MEMES & OTHER MINDSPACE INVADERS A disturbing repository of quotably quirky quotes, sayings, proverbs, maxims, ponderances, adages and aphorisms. This menagerie holds no fewer than 184 memes from eight meme-species perfectly adapted to their respective environments.
MASTRESS & OTHER TWISTED TAILS, ILLUSTRATED: an unholy corpus of oddities, strangelings, bizarritudes and peculiaritisms
FIENDS & FREAKS Adults-only Tales of Serpents, Dragons, Devils, Lobsters, Anguished Spirits, Gods, Anti-gods and Other Horse-thieves You Wouldn't Want to Meet in a Dark Kosmos: 4th Edition
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'The end of reasons is true.'
"If we consider our lives are governed by reasons, the possibility of life is destroyed."
Shubhajit, what you say is extremely insightful. I wish I'd included your point in the original post! Thanks for stopping by.
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