Antifragile
"There is only one evil: disunity." - Pierre Tielhard de Chardin In Gaiman's Endless, there was once a nightmare that escaped in Dream's absence that wreaked havoc in the dream world. It is one form of metaphysical monism that assimilated everything organic unto itself, and Cain had let it out into the kingdom. The story revolves around how Dream, having just gotten back from being wrongfully summoned, controlled it again, not without considerable damage to everything he has. I have no object permance or ontological security, up until now. I didn't get to develop it when I was supposed to, and it resolved into separation anxiety when I was older. I remember I would cry my 2nd-grader eyes out when my mother would leave me in school for the day. This persisted until 4th grade. That is why when I read that Gaiman story, it spoke volumes to me - dare I say it - in feeling, in primordial fear, and not in words. "This is what God must feel like," I remember t...