Re: Dealing with the \'and then?\' problem
I'm not sure what existentialists you're reading. (If it's Jaspers then God help you.) But I am sure you're missing the point if you equate the "Dionysian life" with "kind of doing whatever." That's pretty much...well, the exact opposite of how Nietzsche used the term.
(Edit.) E.g. Ecce Homo II, 10: "My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely to bear what is necessary, still less conceal it---all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary---but love it."
Or one thinks of Kierkegaard: "...all existence, if one becomes conscious of it, involves passion." (Not sure what book.)
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