re: #421 Walter L. Newton

You know, the internet has become like the Diabolicals (so much like The Plan), in the sense that almost anything you read on the internet has some sort of foundation to another tale that has a foundation to another tale that…

I can prove to you that UFO’s are real, well, I can prove it to you in so many layers that you will give up before you will find out the truth.

Sound familiar?

And yet, and here’s the brilliance of Eco, thus is the nature of reality as we perceive it. Only layers, layer after layer, after layer.

The world as perceived is like an onion; you can do nothing but peel away layers and cry.