From Grendel

[deliriumcrow]

"The ultimate evil is the Time is perpetual perishing, and being actual involves elimination. The nature of evil may be epitomized, therefore, in two simple but horrible propositions. 'Things fade' and 'alternatives exclude'. Such is His mystery: that beauty requires contrast, and that discord is fundamental to the creation of new intensities of feeling. Ultimate wisdom, I have come to percieve, lies in the perception that the sloemnity and grandeur of the universe rise through the slow process of unification in which the diversities of existance are utilized, and nothing, nothing, is lost."

--John Gardner