I needed decision-making criteria so that, when I received a flood of individually contradictory but collective ly discouraging instructions about what to change, I would have the original structure as a guide to know which advice I could use and which I couldn't. I don't like the fact that I now write stories with Roland Barthes jokes which perhaps one percent of English speaking people know aren't funny. This is not my new direction. What I want to do for my thesis is carry the unnameable formal ideas I referred to above to their unnatural conclusions. I want use biology, economics, the contemporary theory of metaphor, and Dr. Seuss.
Intellectual masturbation is an interesting metaphor.
Only according to a conventional metaphor system which posits mind and body as opposites can it even be a metaphor. Masturbation is literally an intellectual experience. Structures precede stories. That's a huge conversation and an interesting one. Let's have it.