_grief and substitution

Insofar as this section is concerned, a way of my own coping with loss and grief.

Start here

• Sacrifice, substitution, and the remainder of grief: the long argument. Every sacrificial order runs on substituting one person for the whole, and grief is the one thing that substitution cannot process. Read through The Lottery, Midsommar, Hereditary and Pluribus.

Then

• About the Inadequacy of Attempting to Communicate Grief through Art: the earlier claim that "we only exist in language", and what that leaves art unable to carry.
• the shape of what cannot be said: a return to that claim. Something comes before language, and Simone Weil's void is better left unfilled.
• 2026-10-11: a year of absence, and Weil's void as a vessel for grace.
• Declarations_Of linguistic cartographies: prose. A grandmother's memory, and the days she knows me and the days she doesn't.
• To Speak, To Listen: reinvention through self-examination, and letting grief become "a beacon of light towards a path of virtue."
• Apropos of Nothing: the far edge, a wish for an erasure "beyond disappearance."