"One seeks a midwife for his thoughts, another someone to whom he can be a midwife: thus originates a good conversation."
Nietszche, Beyond Good and Evil

also,
"What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate--and immediately forget we have done so."
(same)

Recently I've been detesting my fabrications.

ugh

read the rest of the wiki post. i feel stupid. (it's like i'm starting building a toy from scratch, when i know the instructions are there, but i can't figure out what those fuzzy line-drawings mean. tab a in slot b, indeed.)