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she renders you speechless. she renders me, and then takes my tallow and uses it for candles. we are not the same

massively insanely important line for me.

beato's cat box, in its very construction as a fantastical mystery, distorts everything within it: the events of 04-05/10, even presented to us through something as "True" as eva's diary, are all just part of a story, a collection of metafictions with an undue influence on one another.

take tohya's Forgeries as an example. after episode 5 it is implied that he writes them "knowing the Truth", but regardless of his own claimed understanding these are parasitic texts. they feed off the "guts" of sayo's message bottles and battler's memories and try to find a single answer from a kaleidoscopic collage of viewpoints. this is more than just observing some Reality with "both eyes", its an attempt to *create* that Reality where none can really exist.

the entire rokkenjima tragedy is a *simulacrum*. eva's diary does nothing to help this, because our very axioms and paradigms for understanding its context are a contemporary product of the 1998 world and cant possibly have bearing on what "really" happened. "new truths usurp old ones". the oldest truth, the experiential truth of the rokkenjima victims, has been written over so many times that it is unreadable.

the "actual truth" has been gutted, hanged up, drained of its contents... (blood, life, experience) and pumped full of new mythology and fiction. willard can analyse it as he does - as a story, as genre - because by 1998 thats all it really is.