Amor Vacui

Leszek Kolakowski's Metaphysical Horror is a quixotic attempt on the part of a modern philosopher to find an "answer" to "the eternal silence of the infinite spaces" that so troubled Pascal.

There is no "answer" to the horror vacui; there are only responses--and how one responds reveals her quality as nothing else can.

Pace Aristotle, it is not Nature that abhors a vacuum, but the human being. Nature has nooks and crannies everywhere. Entropy is the law.