![]() ![]() Which is to say that, deny it as we like, all of our effort and creativity in this world implies an orientation toward some transcendent place or mind outside this world that human consciousness suggests a superhuman correlate that, adapting Nietzsche, to believe in grammar is to believe in God. ![]() That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation. ![]() He’d not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. Years later he’d stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Cormac McCarthy hints at this thesis when his nameless protagonist, sick with fever during his journey with his young son across a post-apocalyptic United States, remembers browsing in a ruined library: The Road, like many other novels in the broad speculative tradition from ancient utopias to modern science fiction, designs a whole fictional world around the expression of a single thesis. ![]()
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