Conundrums

"It is painful to say these things, but it is painful also to stay silent." (1) I have been told erasure is illusory. I have been told there is a middle layer between the front and back of a single sheet. Whatever you try to erase seeps onto that layer, mingles with words, letters, punctuation marks, doodles trapped there, and - SOMEHOW - organizes a piece of fiction. The two most recent results of this most recondite process are two novellas, that were secretly entered in the Booker Prize: They both won! And no one knows "what" the writer is. Notice that is not "who? "; it is "what? " (2) I have been told if you break someone's heart out of callousness or spite, The Furies will haunt you like a modern Orestes, whose six years in therapy have achieved zilch. There is irony here: These processes we call "The Furies" are outside of causality, so how can they impact our sensory world? And what force or entity regulates the moral balance revealed in the suppression of the callous and the spiteful? How are these qualities recognized and measured? Is there an agent behind the operations of things or beings or? ? (3) An epidemic rages in a country separated from ours by a narrow isthmus. With stunning speed and efficiency, we have built a wall along our shoreline. Our navy patrols the coastal waters. They give refugee boats one long-distance warning, only one. This policy is sanctioned by our Supreme Court. Permit me to explain. By now, everyone should understand triage. We are applying it on a larger scale. We don't need all these people on one planet. The immense population probably causes epidemics. Rational politics sanctions this policy. Triage works - for the privileged minority. If God wants to do an ungodly thing, he can intervene and save everyone, we humans only save those humans who can benefit humanity. Our philosophers sanction this policy.