About the Edge
Once, when I was young, I went to the top of a very tall skyscraper, out to an observation deck. I stood as close as I could to the railing, gripping it, right at the very edge. I bent forward and looked down, and saw the tiny people and cars, so far below. Behind me, practical safety. Before me, the vivid prospect of death. And under me, where I stood, was the edge separating the two. The sensation of excitement and fear was sublime. I saw beauty.
Here, at the edge of Logos, I now stand. Logos: the principle of reason, logic, pattern, ratio, proportion, the ordered cosmos, the Word. The experience of the knowable, the conceivable. And beyond that, is… what? A wilderness of randomness? Insanity? God? I won’t insult you by fobbing off a glib answer. But I will say this: the interaction between the chaos of the dark, utterly unknowable wilderness with the comfortable, familiar and generally understandable world we see, has always fascinated me. This is the Edge of Logos, and it merits exploration. It is where all the action is.
Colophon
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