Epigraph to The Dark Interval , by John Dominic Crossan —
“I am the pause between two notes that fall
into a real accordance scarce at all:
for Death’s note tends to dominate—
Both, though, are reconciled in the dark interval,
tremblingly.
And the song remains immaculate.”
—Rilke, The Book of Hours , I
"What we do may be small, but it has
a certain character of permanence."
— G. H. Hardy in A Mathematician's Apology