Acknowledging this sadness…
by Jacqueline Winter Thomas
I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use… I knew that the only rest from my anxiety — for I had been trembling even in infancy — lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.
— Hayden Carruth, from “The Whole Carruth
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