The Possibility of an Island

‍ ‍‘No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of a Continent, a part of the main.’  —John Donne: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Meditation XVII)

‘One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.’ —C.G.Jung: Integrating the Shadow

‘It is dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in the everlasting dusk.’ —Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

‘Twilight specifies a landscape by means of such finely lit details, but it also disperses it. Relations between objects are loosened, such that shape-shift occurs.’ —Robert MacFarlane: Underland