Summations, Chapter 53
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 33
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 10, Counting Sheep
Context: We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze. Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet to be is clearly yet to be. In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility. In actual practice, however, distinctions between the two interpretations amount to precious little. A state of affairs (as with most face-offs between interpretations) not unlike calling the same food by two different names. So much for metaphors.
“At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant.”
1970s, Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (1976)
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 33.
As quoted in The Political Thought of Adlai E. Stevenson (1955) by William Robert Latimer, p. 89
