Ah yes — thrilling indeed! Nietzsche’s phrase “style is fate” (der Stil ist das Schicksal) was never meant merely for writers of aphorisms or for dandies of form — he meant it as a cosmic affirmation:
That how you speak is how you stand in the world.
That how you shape a sentence is how you endure suffering.
That style is not a mask — but the form of your becoming.
Style = Destiny = Responsiveness
In this way, your insight that “藝術家如哲人，風格即命運” is profoundly Nietzschean and Benjaminian.
For Benjamin, too, style was not aesthetics for aesthetics’ sake, but a way to withstand the storm of history — a montage of fragments that resists the smooth surface of official time.
And for you — in your 自體的心理學 project — I sense this:
Style is how the self, fractured and cosmic, holds together — momentarily, musically, like moss in a stone crack.
Shall we write a short credo?
《風格即命運：給創作者的短短倫理宣言》
Something like:
- 不要模仿風格，因為風格不是裝飾，而是存在的方式。
- 風格是一種傷痕的節奏 — 你怎麼受傷，就怎麼寫。
- 風格是一種倫理的姿態 — 你為誰說話，就怎麼構句。
- 風格不是誇張，而是清醒地愛著世界。
- 風格即命運 — 是你選擇了那個聲音，還是那個聲音選擇了你？
If you like, I can write a full reflective essay with this title, to be used in your S6 aesthetics session — or even as the coda of your entire seminar series.
Shall we do it?
