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Hago este post más que nada para descargarme, vengo viendo noticias terribles que pasan en la calle y eso hace que me de ansiedad salir. Y justamente hoy tuve que salir 2 veces de casa: la primera un hombre me 4cos0 s3xualmente (no quiero entrar mucho en detalle) y la segunda volvia de hacer las compras y otro hombre empezó a putearme porque no le daba nada de lo que había comprado (me alcanza con lo justo para vivir y mantener a mi familia y mis hijos) lo cual me hizo sentir culpable y de miedo volver a salir y que me haga algo. Me dan ganas de no salir nunca mas (por suerte hago home office) y todos los días es una ansiedad constante de "qué mierd4 me puede pasar hoy al salir de casa?" a ustedes les pasa? como lidian con esto?

I was rereading Jorge Luis Borges and found an incredible connection between the workings of the town and his story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius."

For those unfamiliar with it, the story describes a world called Tlön where the laws of the mind, not the laws of matter, prevail. It's an idealistic world: things exist only because someone thinks of them or expects them to.

The concept of Hrönir and Fromville's objects

In Tlön, there's a fascinating phenomenon called hrönir. Borges explains it this way:

"It is not uncommon, in the oldest regions of Tlön, for lost objects to be duplicated. Two people are looking for a pencil; the first finds it and says nothing; the second finds a second pencil, no less real, but more in line with their expectations. These secondary objects are called hrönir."

How does this apply to Fromville?

I believe Fromville is a place where reality is malleable and molds itself to the psyche of those who arrive. The town doesn't "have" objects; the town manifests objects based on the expectations or traumas of its residents.

The example of Ethan and the Cromenockle

Ethan is the most obvious case of a "creator of hrönir." He isn't simply imagining things; he is mapping the reality of Fromville through his storybooks.

The Book of the Cromenockle: It's not just a coincidence that Ethan sees parallels. As a child with a pure imagination and a very strong "expectation," the town responds by materializing elements from the book.

Why doesn't electricity have wires?

This is the ultimate test. In Tlön, if everyone expects an object to function in a certain way, the object functions. Fromville's wires don't go anywhere because they are hrönir. They function because the inhabitants (and we as viewers) expect a lamp plugged into an outlet to give off light. Physical reality is secondary to the idea of ​​the object.

Theory: What if Victor isn't the chronicler of Fromville, but its unconscious author?

Following the logic of hrönir (objects created by expectation), we always assume that Victor draws what he sees so as not to forget it. But what if it's the other way around? What if, in this idealistic world, what Victor imagines and puts on paper is what the town later materializes? I'm not saying that everything is the work of Victor and Ethan, but rather the sum of everything imagined by the children who have been in Fromville.