John Crowley Quote

The immense laughter of Bruno when he understood that Copernicus had inverted the universe — what was it but joy in the confirmation of his knowledge that Mind, in the center of all, contains within it all that it is the center of? … the Universe exploded into infinitude, a circle of which Mind, the center, was everywhere and the circumference nowhere. The trick-mirror of finitude was smashed, Bruno laughed, the starry realms were a jewelled bracelet in the hand.


Bk. 3, Ch. 4 - Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament (1981)


The immense laughter of Bruno when he understood that Copernicus had inverted the universe — what was it but joy in the confirmation of his...

The immense laughter of Bruno when he understood that Copernicus had inverted the universe — what was it but joy in the confirmation of his...

The immense laughter of Bruno when he understood that Copernicus had inverted the universe — what was it but joy in the confirmation of his...

The immense laughter of Bruno when he understood that Copernicus had inverted the universe — what was it but joy in the confirmation of his...