Santayana is a good catch, Sam. I haven't read The Sense of Beauty, so I leave it to others to draw out the parallels and echoes.
Wrt "the church of one", I substantially agree. I brought up WS's tendency to solipsism earlier in the thread. 'Reality' is not infinitely malleable by human consciousness, I don't think. WS sometimes writes as if it were. And, not to get too deep into the philosophical woods, but I characterized Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence as 'silly' earlier in the thread; I have deleted that adjective because it's not silly when you look at how it functions in N's philosophy: it's connected to amor fati, or love of fate. I think there is something similar going on in WS -- I mean the act of will.
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