The Big Topic?

Thinking more about what we talked about last night- I think it could be a possible idea to push the "attempting to explain everything" idea in a non-ironic way, figuring out which things work and which don't- not that every work necessarily has to try to do it all, but each could be a part towards that kind of understanding. Like working with the monkeysphere idea, creating roles for the 150 people.

I think you had mentioned Goethe and some others as examples of failures at explaining everything- but I think there's something appealing to someone like Dante coming up with as system for trying to understand heaven and hell. Or Musil or Mann, not in a linear way, but breaking down pre-WWI Austrian and German society. I'm just thinking that there's some space here to both explore the art and science thing, the unease with living life thing, and other possible topics, while also leaving things like media, size, quantity, etc up for grabs too...