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“Among other things, many ignored the reality that millions of African Americans were quite pleased with the decidedly sublunary consolations of equal protection under the law.”

According to Aristotle, the universe is divided between a supralunary zone, where nothing changes and movement is always in circles, and a sublunary zone.

He is scrupulously genial and polite, and happy to talk about theories of spacetime, but extremely reluctant to say anything on the record about the book’s more sublunary themes and ideas.

But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.

For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences.