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>>20277922
If your goal is to help people learn how to learn, you're doing a good job. I ordered Ficciones and Pnin, and I'm going to be devouring those when they arrive. As someone very much interested in creating this kind of metafiction myself, consuming more of it beyond visual novels is necessary to give myself a better foundation. Ascending from Voyager to Creator isn't an easy task but it's one I'm committed to. As for what you said about WTC5, the open environment will definitely be an interesting paradigm shift. While I think it's unlikely, I'm hoping we'll see more of the Witch Hunter community as well. There's something oddly fascinating about true crime and the community around it. It's not like dead people fanfiction is that rare in real life at all—hell, there's a tasteless fetish manga about Furuta Junko. The fanwork Redaction of the Golden Witch did a good job at conveying it, but it'd be great to see Ryukishi's own take.

Also, on what you asked two threads back about
>how only a select few pieces will perforate maya and catch moksha, to apotheosis, and like how only a select few pieces will take Sophia's desperate lifeline, the divine spark, to beatification
Some particular sects believed that there were three tiers of souls. The short version is that Hylics were basically soulless, Psychics had potential to ascend, and Pneumatics would absolutely ascend. This was more or less recreated by monkeys on a typewriter for the NPC meme. Of course, there were plenty of variations on that, where one could "climb up the ladder" through opening their mind to new knowledge, or where it was dismissed as an elitist farce that fundamentally misunderstood how Sophia's gift works. Make of this what you will.