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A proverb from William Blake’s The Marriage Between Heaven and Hell reads: “If the fool would persist in [her] folly, [she] would become wise.” The fool has the optimism of an amnesiac but the mental and physical grit of a hardened soldier. She skips gayly, staggers blindly, or even sometimes scratches and crawls with spiteful determination down this path that others disdainfully refer to as “the hard way.” Regardless, she persists in her folly and continues to tell the tales. And hopefully, you, dear reader, can find a bit of wisdom in it.

Is The Persistent Fool a girl with trauma, mental health problems, and drug addiction? Is she a woman spiritually descended from a long line of prophets, born with psychic powers, who can and shall reveal the Reality behind that which we perceive? Or is she just some mocking satirist weaving complete fiction as a practical joke only to make you question your every assumption and leave you with no better philosophies or touchstones?

Why couldn’t she be all three? Her identification with each of these states shifts routinely, heralding one the ultimate truth and assailing the others as delusions or fraud. None of them can be entirely expunged.  But she certainly won’t argue with you if you dispute that any one or all of them are real. And you won’t be wrong, no matter what you decide. As G.B. Shaw wrote, “The validity of a story has nothing to do with the occurrence of a fact.”