Finally, an intellectual. You are like the philosopher, Rodney Dangerfield. <–Excuse my humour. I have two gifts for you. (Serious things… not just humour).
#1. I will tell you the meaning of life, in an allegory. --The allegory of the eggplant. It will be a light for you, too. A solution for all of your riddles.
Have you ever eaten an eggplant, Ecmandu? …It is a bulbous and grotesque purple banana. But the eating of it was once thought to cure insanity. In myth and symbology, the eggplant has been a symbol of prosperity and success. More recently, in emoji culture, it usually means…a dick.
But nevermind about that. Taste matters, not other people’s wrong ideas.
The eggplant is bland. Sometimes a tad bitter or astringent, but mostly bland. Nutritionally low in content. --Boring in itself. But! But! Eggplant is a spongy and absorbent food. Cook it with forethought and care in the recipe, and it will develop a rich and complex flavour that gives substance to what it cooks with.
Eggplants are misunderstood.
To master the cooking of an eggplant, you must treat it like the vegetable that it is not, rather than the berry that it is. Behold the moral of this story, and life.
And do you know what “the world” is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world is an eggplant. And you yourselves are also this eggplant, and nothing besides! (Except for a few things. The metaphor only goes so far on this one).
#2. I will sing this song to you:
"Conquistador your stallion stands,
In need of company.
And like some angel’s haloed brow
You reek of purity.
I see your armour-plated breast
Has long since lost its sheen
And in your death mask face
There are no signs which can be seen.
Though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind.
Conquistador there is no time
I must pay my respect
And though I came to jeer at you
I leave now with regret
And as the gloom begins to fall
I see there is no, only all
And though you came with sword held high
You did not conquer, only die."
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I am a river to my people.