When reading Elliot's passage on being redeemed from fire by fire, I was strangely reminded of Kierkegaard (perhaps due to Tinsley's thesis). Kierkegaard discusses that the only way to truly escape despair is by first recognizing the experience of despair. It is feeling that very despair that one actually recognizes and sloths off despair. Perhaps this is a stretch, but perhaps it's only when we are consumed by the purging fire that we can, in love, burn. Either way, humanity wears a shirt of flame, so shall we be consumed by fire or fire? Shall be burn and be as the chaff of burnt roses on the man's sleeve? Or shall we be ever consumed, a crowned knot of flame and rose?
On Jeremy's
There is the fact of understanding something by its negation, like the beginning actually being the end.
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