Aug 8, 2025
And the part about light as a living creature,” he said. “What a beautiful thought. I hadn’t really heard that idea before...It really got me for a second,” he said. “I had to think about it. Is light alive? I mean, it doesn’t excrete anything. It doesn’t reproduce. And yet it gives life, so it must have some kind of life to give..." He’d isolated the ultimate kernel...the very idea that I’d fallen in love with, the idea of light as a kind of amniotic fluid flooding the cosmos.
— Jon Raymond, God and Sex: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, August 5, 2025)
