The lore you seek is far more holistic than it first appears. The symbolic cosmic horror that our Lasagna Loving Lord represents is the very real transcendent something that is beyond the sum of the things which comprise it.

Jon is you, Jon is me. Jon is Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, and his name is my name too.

The thing is, we’re permanently tied to our relationship with this transcendent “other” that Garfield represents. The vessel of the body and mind may fall apart for a time and become nourishment for another, but nothing is destroyed. The basic essence, the “stuff” that makes up the Universe and all its inhabitants is quite indestructible.

We can die a trillion deaths over and over again and never escape the chains of fate that bind us together. We can forget over and over again, we can run, we can hide. There is no escape. The illusion is 100% complete and efficient in its recycling process. Even escape from the Illusion is part of the Illusion. We’re all trapped here, together, forever, with zero possibility for escape.

Call it love, call it hatred, call it chaos, God, Garfield, whatever. Give it whatever label you want, it’s never enough. We cannot capture its essence in a container and that’s why we must submit to our fear of it. Whatever It really is, It has us, but we do not have It.