• I think our love for Latin, for many, is not because Latin is itself a beautiful language, or special. It stems from a sort of kinship we feel with it, a language from the past, transplanted into the wrong time, its rules that we barely understand, crystallized into the sort of inscrutable laws that guide our minds and mood swings, laws we don’t understand but are slaves to. 
  • POI: Wallace’s Sarawak Law:

 ‘Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.’

In other words, new species evolve from existing ones, rather than simply appearing where they are. This explains why similar species are found near one another in both space and time.

  • On Theodicy: “And God said, let there be light and there was light.” most interpret this as God drawing light out of nothing but what if light existed all along, it just didn’t know it was light. What if the world already existed and God just came along to sort things out, Logos creating by naming. The Idea that we are merely being delineated via his blueprint from original chaos, from the deep waters, implies the possibility of progress, we might later on be reordered into better and better shapes.
  • Is Spiderman’s isolation in No way home a reflection of the isolation the world felt during quarantine? If so that is quite subtle.
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