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Facilis descensus Averno.
Herewith some recent waymarks on the declivity.

"Memento":  a meditation

A picture-of-a-unicorn (so goes the rote) is as much an unfissionable entity as a hotdog, which does not split neatly into a hot and a dog:  what at first glance seem components  are in reality synsemantic (“incomplete symbols”).

… these insolent ‘memories’, these soi-disant relations to our own vital past, spewn forth from out the cauldron of the unconscious, like some unknown Australian self-proclaimed cousin showing up on our doorstep, bearing a letter of reference and a leer…

We have seen that belief in the intellectual curiosity known as the “Urysohn Metrization Theorem”, oddly widespread, can be adequately accounted for in adaptationist terms.  However, an even simpler explanation lies ready to hand.

… the Blorks:  blind, deaf, immobile (and quite spherical), who nonetheless can sense objects around them with incredible precision, using a kind of echo-location, but only when those objects move.  (Vision in some animals is rather like this.)