Out of the window,I saw how the planets gatheredLike the leaves themselvesTurning in the wind.I saw how the night came,Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocksI felt afraid.And I remembered the cry of the peacocks. Wallace Stevens, “Domination of Black” This post was a project that was started originally started in 2022, and […]
After three hard days’ march from the town of Newmarket,the setting sun illuminates a thunderous waterfall pouring downthe fabled cliff face of Arden Vul. Two colossi carved into the cliff tothe right of the waterfall stare stonily across the valley. A twinkle ofsunlight catches on the rocks … is it the spray from the falls?
All of Leibniz’s theory of evil is a method to prepare for and to resolve dissonances in a ‘universal harmony.’ A counterexample would be furnished by the damned, whose souls produce a dissonance on a unique note, a breath of vengeance or resentment, a hate of God that goes to infinity; but it is still