In This Twilight
“I bet you’re like everybody else; you only see the dark one way. You see it as a negative. Like it’s subtraction, the end of something. The light dies and fades to darkness. And it doesn’t matter if it’s light, or if it’s life. The dark equals decay. A transition from something that is to something that isn’t. Like a corruption of an ideal toward chaos and absence.
“I get it. Life teaches you to think that way. Everything you’ve seen in your textbooks and from your parents and teachers and institutions tells you to run away from the dark, from the void. The dark is nothingness, and nothingness means the end.
“But they’ve got it all wrong. Like, it’s actually the opposite. In nothing is everything. Darkness is actually perfection, the most perfect state there is. It’s not the decay of light or life. It’s when there is so much light, too much life, all the life, that it transcends what we know and understand and becomes something more than we can sense. It becomes nothing because we can’t possibly grasp it all. So much is summed up that it travels past the understandable and becomes darkness, becomes nothing. When you grasp the truth of the dark, it’s like grasping at an understanding you can’t really have—of what exists beyond everything. But it doesn’t just go beyond it; it kind of makes it irrelevant at the same time.”
Excerpt from ‘IN THIS TWILIGHT,’ by Simon Strantzas, from his collection “Nothing is Everything.” One of my favourite stories. If you’ve not read it yet, or the collection, you’re in for a treat. These stories invite re-reads. There are nuances to be found and admired. Philosophical discussions to be parsed. Yet it’s still accessible and elegant and chilling. I hope you’ll give it a try.
And you can still get $5 off upon checkout with Coupon Code NIE5 from the undertow site.
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“I get it. Life teaches you to think that way. Everything you’ve seen in your textbooks and from your parents and teachers and institutions tells you to run away from the dark, from the void. The dark is nothingness, and nothingness means the end.
“But they’ve got it all wrong. Like, it’s actually the opposite. In nothing is everything. Darkness is actually perfection, the most perfect state there is. It’s not the decay of light or life. It’s when there is so much light, too much life, all the life, that it transcends what we know and understand and becomes something more than we can sense. It becomes nothing because we can’t possibly grasp it all. So much is summed up that it travels past the understandable and becomes darkness, becomes nothing. When you grasp the truth of the dark, it’s like grasping at an understanding you can’t really have—of what exists beyond everything. But it doesn’t just go beyond it; it kind of makes it irrelevant at the same time.”
Excerpt from ‘IN THIS TWILIGHT,’ by Simon Strantzas, from his collection “Nothing is Everything.” One of my favourite stories. If you’ve not read it yet, or the collection, you’re in for a treat. These stories invite re-reads. There are nuances to be found and admired. Philosophical discussions to be parsed. Yet it’s still accessible and elegant and chilling. I hope you’ll give it a try.
And you can still get $5 off upon checkout with Coupon Code NIE5 from the undertow site.
http://www.undertowbooks.com/product/...
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