Astonishing the Gods

he was being filled to bursting with future knowledge and with joy enough to last all the darkness that was to come

a dizzying understanding of all the nameless things he would need to know when he would need to know them.

The voice that was his guide was silent; it was only the instinct of another presence which calmed him as he walked through the serenity of the island.

are seeking something that you’ve already found, but you don’t know it. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Maybe what seeks us is better than what we seek.

In a world blinded by the visible might not its opposite be fruitful as a contemplation of the human condition?

Astonishing the Gods was written in the summer of 1993.