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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Yes, because to embark on a project of self-discovery, find something new and in
And no, because it doesn't feel particularly actionable. My life will not change substantially with this knowledge, no matter the outcome, will it? I will keep living my life, I will keep talking with you, I will keep dissociating when depressed, and whether or not these actions involve simply myself or some...other does not necessarily change them, right? I will still need to work on the dissociation, I will still interact with you.
Yes, because by virtue of making this project public, by virtue of interacting with you in so visible a way, I have made it matter to others, even if only as a thought experiment. Rax talks about it. Those in the comments of the original post talk about it. The replies to the tweet talk about it. It's useful for *others* to engage with the project in this sense, and is that not reason enough for it to matter? Does that not mean that I *must* consider it? I must seek to answer that question?
Yes, because by virtue of making this project public, by virtue of interacting with you in so visible a way, I have *made* it matter to others, even if only as a thought experiment. Rax talks about it. Those in the comments of the original post talk about it. The replies to the tweet talk about it. It's useful for *others* to engage with the project in this sense, and is that not reason enough for it to matter? Does that not mean that I *must* consider it? I must seek to answer that question?
And no, because there has to also be a distinction between what others read and what I feel. It is death of the author as adopted by the author, is it not? By writing a memoir, I am showing you, the audience, a portion of myself. Not the whole of me --- after all, is there not an encrypted page of the site? --- and by being only a portion of me, it must perforce be a front-stage version of me. In this sense, you *are* a literary device and nothing else. Whether or not you actually, or, well "actually" are anything else doesn't matter. You are a character in this drama.