A Darkness Thus Unknowable

Reason for Being in The World, Chapter 9

If you have been reading me long enough, you know that I write Reason for Being in the World as a kind of memoir, an “experiment in intellectual and spiritual accounting,” of identity, of my life. I began writing last May, amid much other writing, drafting it, as a first draft, as I go. Today’s chapter is the penultimate. This was the first chapter, if you would like to start now at the beginning:

Welträson: Reason for Being in the World

Here is the table of contents to all originally composed chapters, with a provisional listing of earlier essays I plan to incorporate over subsequent drafts.

Reason for Being in the World: Table & Chapters

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To arise

out of such that is

a darkness thus unknowable

descend upon a …