Limbo

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Cocteau:
"I no longer exist, but I have the impression that your young people are not like ours. Your young people are no longer caught - I hope - between two stools."

"Our young people are caught between two stools." [straddling contradictions]

"The young people of our day have not known the "Great Age," which is what the heroic age of Montparnasse was called. No, the young people of today have known nothing of my civilization, the civilization that I knew predated the apprentice robots of today.
I hope that you have not become full-fledged robots but, on the contrary, have been humanized. This is my hope."

Anthony Froshaug in 'The social context of art':
"When I was an adolescent, I was told of a country where doctors & painters, lawyers & poets, artisans and ordinary men relaxed a café on a busy street, while the random world milled to-and-fro, passers-by. I never went there: indeed, by the time I could have gone, it had turned into rotten wood, a fly-trap for packaged tourists."

Christ in Limbo, by a Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, 1575~:

Buridan's ass:
It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (or donkey) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the ass will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water. *

Cocteau:
"Yes, as I said, at present young people are caught between two stools. Young people have lost what humanity we had but they are not yet mere robots.

This is why they are perpetually accused of being sad, of being anxious. It is completely normal that they should be so. Surely you- you surely do know the great painter Picasso. He once said to me, "It takes a long time to grow young."

He was right, in the sense that a young person has not yet found his way. A young person wonders where he is going. Whether he is going left or right.

He is anxious. Therefore, he is old."

Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558):
To sit between two stools in the ashes. Meaning: To be indecisive

Tolstoy on Automatism:

Coleridge, Limbo, early 1800s:

The oblique strategy:

Maldonado in Design, Nature & Revolution: