/lit/ - Literature

Now get a load of this, he says whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he’d collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men’s knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation... I mean this guy was a real jerk!

>>14505311
We’re not just pieces of pottery, I’m a sentient being. If some pottery becomes imbued with its own spirit and ability to experience things, then by all means let it answer back; that’s only fair. If the potter won’t listen, then he’s a real jerk. Alright, I’m ready for the next preposterous biblical conceit.