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so Leibniz is the source of Deleuze’s unflappable Candidean affirmation that once one dismisses the rest of all possible worlds (& one really ought to), one finds that this is the best, & c. / the tyranny of service done by distance

God has chosen the world that is the most perfect, that is to say, the one that is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena. – Leibniz, quoted in Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion, p. 646 Standing on a ship in Japan, I am closer
Simon Taylor

Semele in Olympus ; the Jupiter and Semele of Gustave Moreau; & SOME INITIAL NOTES & IDEAS TOWARDS A WORK: groundwork for and parts of a new factory to produce an organ for the love project, envisaged to require divers organs of varying sizes, shapes and

Even to the height of mighty Olympus (or Όλυμπος), reports of the exceptional beauty of the child had reached. The king of all the gods, who has his throne upon that mountain, Zeus (or Ζεύς), heard them. He watched and waited.The child’s mother, Harmonia (or Αρμονία), was born
Simon Taylor