The last part of Belmont is akin to a manic episode to cram everything else into Laura's life, including the alien philosophy, within a manageable semblance of order after the death of her mother in one chapter. It grows cumbersome after the first four decently written parts. The so-called high-mindedness concerning the Pre-AEB is mostly gibberish and a futile effort to place the hopelessness of life into logical terms. Interesting but nothing worthy of putting significant mental energy into.
I've also come to the conclusion that her seeming obsession with gender fluidity may have more to do with reincarnation than the obscure itself as she keeps mentioning Eastern philosophy. Of course, witchcraft also holds reincarnation as one of its living tenets. Maybe Laura was secretly a witch, too. She does give off that Gundella vibe.
The last curiosity concerns the Negative-Positive-Neutral polarities which Laura seemingly excludes smokers from. Why she does this is beyond me but I will assume that it has something to do with addiction to nicotine. The same could be said of drinkers and drug addicts, though she doesn't seem to single them out. Perhaps she thought smoking was the most addictive of the three?
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