All-englobing

God, our origin and foundation, our closest, all-penetrative environment, and our all-englobing end.

The desire to get back into the womb can become, in a creative way, a making of a womb out of the whole world, including everything in the womb (the city, the enlarged universe of Black Spring, of The Black Book), the all-englobing, all-encompassing womb, holding everything.

What made the Flood special was that the destruction it wrought was all-englobing. Everything was destroyed and everyone not on Uta-napishti’s ship killed […]