Jusgotupianism for Beginners
"I don't know how you let your daughter speak to you like that." "Oh, it'll pass, I'm sure. She's just going through the Dark Ages." "You mean she spends her days illuminating manuscripts in a cell on a rocky promontory beneath a dramatic gloaming?" "Not exactly. I mean there is a hobnailed boot whose arc of movement is determined by an axle held by a projecting framework attached to her head. Every day, when she wakes up, she is herself for a few seconds, which may be blissful seconds or they may not, but after those moments of unalloyed but sleepy selfhood have ticked by, the boot suddenly comes to life, swings round and kicks her in the forehead." "Indeed. How does she experience this subjectively?" "As an act of awakening, of mental preparation to face the day. Unfortunately, she is not only remembering her agenda - what to do - but, also, who to be and for whom. Thus is she daily ejected, with hideous...