Miscellany

Vijay Iyer blogs Andrew Hill

I've recently been re-reading Robert Calasso's epic retelling of Indian mythology, Ka. He approaches the body of work as a tapestry, and follows the threads through a non-linear narrative that is both fascinating and at times impenetrably dense.

There are little fragments that jump out of the text periodically, such as:

"The obscure Rudra, still lurking in that undifferentiated fullness that precedes all creation, in that state of being at once implicit and closed in upon himself, agreed to split into a double that turned to face an external progenitor, indeed his own eventual progenitor, Prajapati." (Calasso, 43)

That undifferentiated fullness that precedes all creation!