Reductive Reasoning
A cliche is what you’re born into, chaos ensues from there.
From that point forward everything’s lost and you’ve lost everything.
Rebirth is possible, though unlikely.
It’s possible to at least get outdoors and take a walk, but not with the guy who is sitting beside you in the coffee shop and has nervous leg syndrome: he never goes anywhere.
The spiral is a ‘spiritualized circle’ according to Vladimir Nabokov, the novelist. A novel often contains a beginning, middle and end or, at the very least, the beginning and the end.
Golden Gate Park, February 7, 2025. Photo by author.