(March 31, 2022 at 1:53 am)Belacqua Wrote:(March 31, 2022 at 12:20 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: these aren't merely artifacts of literature, they are cognitive maps for representing the world.
I was thinking about how a series of true events might become allegory. It seems to me that it depends entirely on how and to whom we tell these events.
Like if a rock star gets rich and famous and then squanders all his money and dies, it's a series of real-life events.
But if your dad relays this story to you when you're young and on the verge of success, then it's an allegory about Temperance and Prudence.
Yes. There remains an philosophical problem in the background about how ANY material object or physical event can have any significance at all.
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