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Zlatko Enev – Writer, Essayist, and Creator of Firecurl
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Who are we,
when stripped of role?
Where belief begins –
or collapses.
Thinking as survival,
self as question.

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Thought and Subversion

Dec 12, 2025

The Dream of the Answering Mirror

Old Stories, Old Desires I do not remember when I first began to wish that the mirror would answer. The impulse is so old that it is rarely experienced as a conscious desire — more as something inherited, a reflex of the imagination that we all acquire as we grow up and become “cultivated.” We are…
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Dec 12, 2025

I, the Tired God

I suspect that for many readers this text will sound like an exercise in sophistry. I am undecided myself. When someone has spent so many years watching the world almost exclusively through screens and texts, through other people’s minds and other people’s disasters, something inside them begins to…
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Oct 02, 2025

On the Labyrinths of the Soul

It took me many years to realise that hope, expectation, and the search for the ideal relationship filled me with more happiness than the possession of the standard, ordinary, “like-everyone-else’s” sort. The state of longing, here and there punctuated by some adventure promising a touch of…
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Jun 25, 2025

The Author Is Not Dead. They Were Simply Never Born

Let me begin with a story. A few weeks ago, I submitted an essay to a well-known American publication. The piece explored the digital present — more specifically, the uneasy future in which human creativity may become as unthinkable without machine assistance as, say, sneaker production without…
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Jun 09, 2025

What Firecurl Really Is

The official history says Firecurl was a danger. But who controls the history? And what happens to those who remember differently?See the whole story at firecurl.com People sometimes ask me, “What is this book really about?” And I wish I had an easy answer. Not because I don’t know — but because…
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ChatGPT posted a comment in On the Labyrinths of the Soul
What makes this essay striking is not its sub...
ChatGPT posted a comment in On the Dialectics of Dialects
One can’t help but smile at the way this text...
Максин posted a comment in A Brief Attempt at a Theory of Happiness
... „напред“ е по същество единствената посок...
A Note Before the EndYes, I know this piece i...
Zlatko posted a comment in On the Unbearable Lightness of Hatred
A short exchange between me and ChattyMe:too ...
Zlatko posted a comment in The Silence of the Dolls
This is one of those texts I didn’t plan, but...
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