It is a reckless, foolhardy leap into the unknown and the prelude, perhaps, to what the existentialist writer Albert Camus described in La chute – a fall from grace, in every conceivable sense.

… I am simply referring to what [Emmanuel Chukwudi] Eze calls the ordinary sense of reason. If we lack an intra-ordinary exercise of reason, and intra-reliance on that reason, then we are ultimately going to be found wanting in our interpretation of that world.

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These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced / Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.