[ kaveh laughs like a faint breeze. the flower petals shiver for it. alhaitham remembers - the singular focus of each individual darshan, the sheer inadequacy of the exchange of ideas between them, an academic organism that lives only through individual groove-laid tracks along a shifting desert. the akademiya cannot survive in its current shape, but alhaitham has never been interested in the akademiya's survival. he has only ever been interested in the sharpening of his own acuity; if he is to synthesize the information between darshans, then it is enough that he alone can see the brightest way forward.
that had been, however, one other.
kaveh, who sat in that same front row for a rtawahist course that neither of them had registered for just so that he can better argue with alhaitham the principles of utilitarianism. alhaitham lets his thumb skim the outline of kaveh's palm. no matter which kaveh, it seems, the core essence of his audacity cannot be changed. even the eleazar has not robbed him of such. ]
I assert [ alhaitham says, because his beliefs alone have always been enough to unmake and remake an entire world, ] that you are uniquely suited to live in neither in the past nor the future. To be a victim, one must assume recognition of one's victimhood. One must accept the assumption that trauma will shatter your belief of the world as a just and moral place. That is what it means to be a victim.
You speak of 'Kaveh' and 'Alhaitham'. Tell me - are you still Kaveh if you no longer believe in the world? Am I still Alhaitham if I let you do so?
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Date: 2023-04-29 05:24 am (UTC)that had been, however, one other.
kaveh, who sat in that same front row for a rtawahist course that neither of them had registered for just so that he can better argue with alhaitham the principles of utilitarianism. alhaitham lets his thumb skim the outline of kaveh's palm. no matter which kaveh, it seems, the core essence of his audacity cannot be changed. even the eleazar has not robbed him of such. ]
I assert [ alhaitham says, because his beliefs alone have always been enough to unmake and remake an entire world, ] that you are uniquely suited to live in neither in the past nor the future. To be a victim, one must assume recognition of one's victimhood. One must accept the assumption that trauma will shatter your belief of the world as a just and moral place. That is what it means to be a victim.
You speak of 'Kaveh' and 'Alhaitham'. Tell me - are you still Kaveh if you no longer believe in the world? Am I still Alhaitham if I let you do so?