The ultimate domain ...

Running rest-day ...

... and it's also my 100th blip :-)

So - here's an excerpt from MacDiarmid's "Plaited Like the Generations of Men", quoted within the pictured 1992 edited biography.

Truly wonderful stuff:


Plaited Like the Generations of Men

Come, follow me into the realm of music. Here is the gate
Which separates the earthly from the eternal.

......

At first you hear nothing, because everything sounds.
But now you begin to distinguish between them. Listen.
Each star has its rhythm and each world its beat.
The heart of each separate living thing
Beats differently, according to its needs,
And all the beats are in harmony.

......

Now you understand how stars and hearts are one with another
And how there can nowhere be an end, nowhere a hindrance;
How the boundless dwells perfect and undivided in the spirit,
How each part can be at once infinitely great and infinitely small,
How the utmost extension is but a point, and how
Light, harmony, movement, power
All identical, all separate, and all united are life.