I’ve heard
it said that there are only 2 forces in the universe: love, and the absence of
love. In the Elizabethan era play, ‘Dr
Faustus’ by Christopher Marlowe (a contemporary of Shakespeare), when asked
about hell, the fallen angel Mephistopheles replies,
“Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
Just as the
absence...
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