~ Headlessness ~

Portrait from A Memoir of Jacques Cartier.

"Uncertain whether a ghostly hand might not presently draw aside the curtain.” —Leith Adams

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Antipater of Cydonia writes:

This suggests the Scanner Model of reality. That reality is a matter of faithful reproduction. Of what? I don't know. Most savvy people consider recreation a misnomer. Or a parlor trick. A museum. A diorama. A dilemmarama. That a copy of a copy of a copy gets less real. That's the Faith. That's the cherished human notion. Because of the lost substrate. But the other argument is that the copy of the copy of the copy is every bit as real as the original (arch-ecriture whatevah). It's memory which is fouling reality. Memory the copier. Memory  the bad copyist. The logical conclusion would seem to be that reality has nothing whatsoever to do with memory. Uh oh.