“Reading Nicholas Mosley | Dalkey Archive Press.” Accessed June 6, 2020. http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/reading-nicholas-mosley/. [[2020-06-06]] Reading this has re-ignited my interest in Nicholas Mosley. > The novels of Nicholas Mosley could be seen as chapters of a single novel in which a single theme evolves: the possibility of man’s freedom through overcoming the paradox of freedom. The paradox (or, as Mosley often calls it, the “impossibility”) of freedom arises due to man’s awareness of the necessity of limiting structures for freedom. All choice-making and all action would end up in paralysis in the absence of limiting structures. In other words, freedom is only possible in the presence of “nonfreedom.” Hence the question is: how could man fulfill the paradoxical task of overcoming these structures in order to attain freedom? > </br> > Mosley’s writing career could be divided into four different phases in which a series of novels dramatize one aspect of this endeavor and consequently lead onto the next phase, which supersedes the previous one by addressing the possibility of overcoming the paradox of freedom on a higher level and in a more complex context. It would be worthwhile to compare his writing to the metamodern project of finding ever higher levels of freedom. [[Freedom and the Spectrum of Judgment]] > Mosley appropriated Bateson’s three levels of learning, where each level is a standing back from and an observation of the former pattern of learning and thus a liberation from it. These levels culminate in the third level of learning, where the individual can free himself from the patterns of his consciousness by being aware of and thus being in contact with a greater whole—a “circuit of circuits” What is unique to Mosley is his way of using "I said" and "I think" to demarcate the different levels of observation.