Forms

The Voice adopts a tone that soars above the debate between Job and the friends. It speaks of a rich, variegated world filled with multifarious life, each mode pursuing distinctive vectors and powers. Even more, ­these multifarious forces and beings are not designed to serve humanity in the first or last instance. The ­human estate is entangled with diverse beings and forces following trajectories of their own. No pristine harmony ­here was spoiled by an original sin. Rather multiple forces on the way both enable and exceed a stability of forms.-- William E. Connolly, Facing the Planetary