A Buzzsaw Epiphany

In the twilight region before sleep, the secret of enchantment made itself known

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)

An extraordinary thing just happened. I was just now lying on the couch in my living room, drifting off for a nap after hours of reading, when the sound of a buzzsaw on a construction site on the street below kept me from entering a dream state. The sound of the saw triggered a flood of insights about the nature of re-enchant…