They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell. One can infer from this vision that the process of naming and storytelling lends reality to the object or concept being named and described, while in the absence of naming, memory, or narration, the object or concept no longer exists in a way that has human meaning. Significant principles and the words that signify them ('sacred idiom') are forgotten and lost the objects and concepts themselves cease to be.

These concepts, once 'believed to be true,' are in fact 'ore fragile than he would have thought,' too easily lost in the new reality.

These perhaps include the capacity to hope, or to feel empathy, love, and altruism. More importantly, fundamental truths and customs regarding human life have been lost. Such things include colors, types of birds, and certain foods. More sophisticated aspects of human civilization have been obliterated, and the names of such things are slowly being forgotten by the remaining humans, following the things themselves into oblivion. The first sentence here indicates that the post-apocalyptic world has been reduced to basic elements, 'a raw core of parsible entities,' where complexity is a luxury. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.' 75

Finally the names of things one believed to be true. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. 'The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities.

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