So I head over to Farrago's Wainscot because I'm discussing "The Oneiromantic Mosaic of Harry Potemkin" by Teppo in my mentorship at Intermedia Arts/SASE, in order to swipe the swatch below from the section of the mosaic called Labyrinth, because it pretty neatly describes what I see as two key approaches to Mark's story:
Do you know the difference between a labyrinth and a maze?
A maze has branching paths, a labyrinth is the course of the true path. One is the curved emblem of discord, the other is an expression of linear regularity. One is our shadow, the other is our face.
Or, at least, I thought it did. But I went back a minute later to copy a different snippet....and the text I'd just copied had changed. It now read:
Do you know the difference between a maze and a labyrinth?
A maze has many paths, a labyrinth has only one. One is emblematic of chaos, the other order. One represents a God who is visible, the other a Deity who has abandoned us in the wilderness.
Well done, Farrago, you bastard, well done.
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