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>>19427382
Yeah, the feathers could also be a red herring and have nothing to do with the animal the story will be named after. It could very well only have disjointed thematic relevance (like how seagulls are only thematic insofar as their Japanese name shares a word with "catbox," regarding Umineko's epistemological themes). I wouldn't be surprised if it was something only distantly related to the heavenly Empyrean.

I mean something you'd only get after two or three entire linguistic/thematic connections, like seagull>neko>catbox>Schrodinger's experiment>the commentary on an object's state before perception pierces it. What could we possibly surmise from white feathers? We could be starting from the seagull or the commentary. It could be that the white feather is of an animal per se or of some idea of the holy/virtuous/foregone and forlorn. Whichever we're starting from, it could very well only be related to an afterimage two nodes away from the actual animal/theme (let's say the animal-theme connection is a tree diagram).

>>19428029
Of course Haworthia could be crucial. In literature, from microcosm to macrocosm (word to book), all is deliberate. The diction, prosody, description, setting, metaphors, etc, are never happenstance. That's how you fall into the death of the author meme which is grossly misattributed by a mass who never even read Barthes (of course) when all it means to do is recognize that we should not be beholden to authorial intent as the sole descriptor of meaning. It's just to avoid authorial tyranny, especially since some shared understanding of a work is required for any charitable and productive discussion to be had. Should Haworthia share tracks with WTC5, plus the magical themes in Umineko, it must have some meaningful connection to the author's intentions. Of course this reverberates for song and not pure melody, where lyrics are basically meaning bruteforced. It depends on which of those tracks are shared.

I acknowledge that Haworthia's significance is enervated if it was only synchronously written with WTC5 and not as a piece of some WTC5 rough draft.