mazelike/rhizomatic/immanent/emergent are not antithetical to a transcendent real but its very manifestation

as in

and the fake qualifier

Another Frenchman pushes through the crowd to join him. He's an events organiser who I'd met earlier, and he's holding a large box wrapped in a bin bag. They're the fireworks he'd smuggled in from France the night before. They're Industrial Grade, whatever that means for fireworks.

so at the end

autonomy of learning

ahnaf is it worth reading all those books