July 21, 2026

1 In the asceticism born of a wound, a person can be reduced to economy, and a lasting resentment can be founded on that.

2 «Spengler’s position lets him see the appearances, but does not readily let him see their «extension»¹.

3 A continuous morphology that runs from creation to truth must not stop midway at stations created by wasting and conning the powder before its time.

Truth appears at the end of that morphology, and is marked by the fact that it has value all on its own, like an image to cultivate: truth can be used as an Archimedean point even by those who cannot create it.

4 What position do we have to be in for it to strike us as surprising and providential that nature should coincide down to its smallest details, and for us even to be able to scorn literalness or see it as nonsense?

5 Does truth resemble tools, or is it tools that resemble truth? Perhaps the first is the second, and shows a momentary position close to the facts.