Winning without Victory

The exploration in this room of the gallery of the invisible shapes that shape us in the landscape of love is centered on a potential nuclear holocaust, but which is narrowly avoided. 

The sequence of the vistas begins with those small love-games that we play, which tend to be rather inconsequential in the world at large but matter to us individually. Nevertheless we don't live isolated from the world, and as the circles of our love expand our love becomes modulated by the larger ripples that flow in the world that we must interact with. And there times, suddenly, when one's love is put to the test as the fate of all mankind might depend on its strength. Will the resulting imperative supersede the imperatives of our small personal strands of love? Sometimes a person has the option to choose, but often there is never a real choice involved when the scene becomes wide and the consequences global.

Also there are times when the critical choices are made by others for us, when great evils must be stopped and one is demanded to do this without fail or else it won't be stopped at all and the price is paid by millions and by future generations. 

This is not a hypothetical issue. In most cases in history the great opportunities were sadly left unrealized and the evils that should have ended right then, were allowed to continue so that in their wake entire nations, even continents were wasted. It takes a great love if one is to reach into the future. However, a still greater love is needed when the future is a long way off and the opposition against such love is unfolding strongly with death-threats happening in the background determined to break that love?

In such times of the greatest demands the small and precious sparkles in the intimate domain can become a resource for the larger light that cannot be allowed to dim. The same seems to happen also in reverse, so that the big achievements in love uplift the intimacy of it in the small. There are many such vistas threaded through the scenes of this rather large novel, some of which unfolds in Venice at the heart of the fondi empire, and some of that unfolds in the darkest of nights.

In the end, though, step by step the world becomes a brighter place. The vistas of love become a rare light and with that light civilization becomes somewhat richer even if the ultimate victory remains still a long way off.

(picture above is NASA,s F15-"Active" - NASA photo EC96-43456-2)

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