I’m a strange new kind of inbetween thing aren’t I not at home with the dead nor with the living - Anne Carson

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM

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Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

"How does distance look?" is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved.

...some hours later they were down
at the railroad tracks
standing close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overhead
scattering drops of itself.