Goenawan Mohamad writes in ‘God and Other Unfinished Things’ about the Copernican revolution:
The more man comprehends the size of the
universe, the more apparent is the planet’s
solitude. The starker is man’s isolation. This
planet is but a fleeting dot. And yet, in those
moments of neglect, loss and absence are hardly
extraordinary.
Life is so close to the skin and absence so
grand. I remember a line in Sitor Situmorang’s
‘Cathedral des
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