Words Always Fail: On Writing, Language, and Reality

Dear Living Dark reader,

It’s an early Sunday morning as I type these words, so maybe the fact that this is “the Lord’s Day” in the Christian tradition—and was devoutly practiced as such in the Protestant evangelical branch of that tradition in which I grew up—is what prompted the following thoughts (see further below) shortly after I arose.

Or maybe it’s the fact that for several weeks now, I have been slowly making my way through the collected pointers (aphoristic writings that gesture toward tr...