
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
“Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.”
“Love the battle between chaos and imagination.”
"Alice-Alice" in Third Wish (2006)
Context: Love the battle between chaos and imagination.
Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.
Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives.
Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally.
Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there.
Introduction
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Context: The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. It is unlikely that the techniques of liberation spontaneously adopted by women will be in such fierce conflict as exists between warring self-interests and conflicting dogmas, for they will not seek to eliminate all systems but their own. However diverse they may be, they need not be utterly irreconcilable, because they will not be conquistatorial.
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 281
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
High Output Management
“Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark”
Source: Self-Reliance
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 32 in the 1992 edition, ISBN 0807014265, Beacon Press
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