It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. |
Instead, in a more Brechtian key, we are left stranded in catastasis, and Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism forgoes anodyne closure in favor of sustained dissonance. |
Joshua the Stylite, Philagathos' De siccitate, and Synesius of Cyrene's Catastasis. |