
Jack Underwood and Raymond Antrobus: Not Even This
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Black Hole and the Poem
Our galaxy is organized around a super massive black hole, statutarius. Data that genzel's team collected throughout the early nineties and early two thousand enabled them to chart the velocities and orbits of the stars closest to the galactic centre. They found a truly extreme environment, where the velocity of the orbiting stars was so great and the mass of that region so compact, that there could only be one explanation. All human knowledge, activity and experience is derived from the circumstantial conditions created by an object that we humans can never experience directly. A black whole is a perfect analogy for uncertainty, for how life and real transcend intellect. Our entire existence depends upon these points in space whe
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