A pop culture description of this whole ordeal would be if Borges had a drunken fling with Bergson and the resulting lovechild had The Mars Volta as a godfather. This is part of a lifelong conscious (and unconscious) rebellion against materialistic-objective-deterministic viewpoints that ignore spiritual, subjective and complex aspects that this world has to offer. To me, many of the short stories have practical aspects that I deem as often neglected, or to put it this way: Is Luna Lovegood really ethereal, impractical and out of touch with reality or are we all overly materialistic, impractical and out of touch with reality?