The shell gamer is therefore doomed to exist in the shadows of a society that does not wish to be reminded of its own weaknesses. The losers condemn the deception as trickery, and banishes the juggler from respectable society. As he conjures and juggles, Faust dreams of putting himself in harmony with gravity, the fundamental entropic force of the universe. He sees the whole of the Milky Way as only one ring of an infinity of rings kept spinning by the Master Juggler balancing on the Firmament of Time. Here we return to the central morality inherent in juggling on the highest plane.
Objects fly through the air, stars wheel through the universe.
All fall eventually. If the juggler becomes obsessed with definitively mastering the decline, the juggler is lost. If the juggler achieves peace within the intervals of rising and falling, the juggler finds grace. All Rights Reserved.