Conatus

 

You may never have heard of Conatus and if you have heard of the notion coined by a certain Mr. Baruch Spinoza of Amsterdam who was not a member in good standing of his congregation due to his pan rather than theism... A run-on sentence is required to onomatopoeically render the amount of power of the knowable. God is not punishing nor answering nor benign as the vista of a sylvan sand sunny shore--the Eden that's ready to turn on you as the skies darken and your tsunami looms on the horizon. A huge piece of space debris hits earth and voila The Ice Age. You don't want to be a pterodactyl on the  way to be becoming a legendary fossil.

listen to Joan Baum's NPR review of The Kafka Studies Department by Francis Levy

and see the invite for Hallie Cohen's show, Mi Ricordo: Roman Watercolors, opening on February 29