Writing game 3 - Beyond reason

- Ignorance is bliss, he moaned to himself as he watched people crossing the dusky old street. – How come people never wonder? - Do they not want to know what life really is?

He had been watching over the street for quite some time. Seldom, if ever, would he deviate from his lamp post. He said it provided him with the light he needed for writing his masterpiece that would change the perception of mankind and its being-in-the-world. I know only little about this “masterpiece”, but I remember looking into it one night, as I had found him under that same old lamp post at exactly 8’oclock (he was very punctual). I saw what must have been the result of his repetitive and steady contemplation, which had been going on for years: “Time and space are a priori principals that exist in our minds – in our minds and only in our minds do they make sense. Time and space are thus real, but only in relation to us do they exist.” More with it stated something about “sensibility” and “reason” that I did not quite get. The reading of a few pages had made me feel as though I was wasting my time. What was this sensibility and reason all about? Hardly had I thought it through, in my perplexed state of mind, until he interrupted me:

- I’m going to hand this over to his Excellence once it is done – it is going to change the perception of mankind and its being-in-the-world.

- Well, that is good news, I replied, with a sceptical tone as I made my farewells, leaving him in his delusion...

His name was Immanuel.