“A vacuum…”

Kevin Spenst called my attention to this quote, which (as he notes) recalls the themes of my book Clockfire (so I thought I’d share it here):

A vacuum is unalterably and untransferably a vacuum––the only thing that can happen to it is destruction. If it were possible to reproduce it in an audience the result would be the destruction of the audience.

— Laura Riding, Anarchism Is Not Enough (1928)