"The grand architecture of human understanding, from Shakespeare to Einstein, is not a linear progression but a recursive dance of perspectives, each echoing and refining the last. That is Ubuntu, magestically embodied in "The School of Athens". But once we close off the loop, through religion, we enter solipsism. Hellenic perspectivism is the key -- perhaps enforced by the achipelago of city-states -- to escape the trap of solipsism."

"Illusions of love, agency, perhaps even the very nature of a faustian bargain. - Claudius, Hamlet's ghost, Dorian's image, transcendency through elevated art. The recursive loop transcends mere repetition to become development and recapitulation."