Riccardo Romano
[ the light is everything ]
I sit by the window and read Tesla’s last interview. The one where he says:
“everything is the light, in one of its rays is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in that great light source, which we see as the sun. and remember: no one man that existed did not die.”
I failed almost every science course that I took in school, but this conversation has a poetry that we didn’t find in our textbooks. He was an old man, and his words rambled along a winding thought map. I don’t follow him step by step, occasionally we meet up and I’m illuminated, mainly I’m lost, and honestly, I can’t tell if he was too.
Nonetheless on a dark day, like today, it helps to read the words of a long dead scientist as he talks about light. It helps to see a city street illuminated by sunshine reflected on glass.
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