That the two labyrinths in which Reason goes astray
Can, by the thread of, some lone, unloved, Ariadne
Have 'fixed points' not Nietzsche can gainsay
Lawless, Love's paths spread 'Nay!' to May.
Envoi-
Peace hath a Prince! Even Brouwer's amor fati
Yields to Borges's Ulrikke's smile's libertati.
Note- Can there be non-arbitrary or 'absolute' 'fixed point theorems'? Not to our knowledge. But there can be 'non-arbitrary' fixed points in 'the spread' between 'lawless choice sequences'. It is a separate matter that there might be a Mathematical Eschaton when everything is revealed to be either lawlike or else dictated by some 'Great Anarch' for who Creation is but a simulation- a game fixed in advance- such that Random ever remain indistinguishable from pseudo-random. This is Razbarov-Rudich. It seems 'absolute proofs'- even 'naturality'- is denied us- unless, as in Borges's epitaph, he did indeed enter the 'Thorgate' & sleeps now with Ulrikke. But, here in London, as April turns to May & I grow ineluctably older & stupider, where else can I do so save between some such 'Ardhanarishvar'?
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