VL and Perspectivism

[Terrance]

Echoing Xenophanes, Nietzsche's limits the human intellect by the
perspective permitted only to each. 

  For Nietzsche says that in the course of  analysis "the human
intellect cannot avoid seeing itself in its own perspectives, and ONLY
in these." We cannot look around our own corner: it is a hopeless
curiosity that wants to know what other kinds of intellects and
perspectives there MIGHT be; for example, whether some beings might be
able to experience time [ass]backwards, or alternatively forward and
backward (which would involve another direction of life and another
concept of cause and effect."  

  But if this is not a grim enough view, Niezsche says that the world of
which we may become conscious is but a "surface-and sign-world." Alas,
"the thinking that rises to consciousness is only the smallest part of
all this--the most superficial and worst part---for only this conscious
thinking takes the form of words, which is to say signs of
communication, and this fact uncovers the origin of consciousness." 

  And of course Niezsche's "Will to Power", that sense of creativity,
the drive to expand Power is not from liberum arbitrium, free choice,
but from necessity, nothing else is permitted. 

Why do the characters in VL all spin different yarns? 

"...turning further and further inward and cherishing a small flame
behind the alter. And Kurtz too had been in his way a father
confessor."