It is difficult to imagine something more pharisaic than
this demiurge,
who contemplates all uncreated possible worlds to take delight in his single choice.
For to do so, he must close his ears to the incessant lamentation that, throughout the infinite chambers of this Baroque inferno of potentiality, arises from everything that could have been but was not,
from everything that could have been otherwise but had to be sacrificed for the present world to be as it is.
who contemplates all uncreated possible worlds to take delight in his single choice.
For to do so, he must close his ears to the incessant lamentation that, throughout the infinite chambers of this Baroque inferno of potentiality, arises from everything that could have been but was not,
from everything that could have been otherwise but had to be sacrificed for the present world to be as it is.
Giorgio Agamben, Potentialities,
Collected Essays in Philosophy, “Bartleby, or On Contingency,” trans. and ed.
Daniel Heller-Roasen, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 266.
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