Introduction

Jay Parini: I resonate with what you're saying, what is being said through you or by you. The message may sound the same, but there's an emphasis that can be different. We are more in the direction of negating than affirming, so to speak. What we are is indescribable, unknowable, incomprehensible. So let's not attempt to use this faulty finite system to try to understand the infinite. But let's just turn it on trying to understand the finite.