Shadow of a shadow

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What is epistemology? The deeper the microscope views the heavens, the further the telescope surveys the miniature; for either instrument, outside the cave the landscape of illusion is vast; we are universes within universes within universes

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What is epistemology? The deeper the microscope views the heavens, the further the telescope surveys the miniature; for either instrument, outside the cave the landscape of illusion is vast; we are universes within universes within universes. And so I wonder what creature encompasses our puny and impotent knowledge echoing into it's unending silence; what beast does our universe exist within?

Everyone and everything is a simulacra and always has been; birth and death make no difference to this miss understanding. My mind is a shadow of something else, some other shadow's shadow up against an infinity mirror. Perhaps I am a Droste effect, a picture within a picture, living and dying by my opaque resolution.
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As MacReady used the hot needle and cauterized Palmer's blood, the Shaggoth in the back of Palmer's imitated mind howled, "Tekeli- lil! Tekeli-lil!"

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