sublunary

“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 sublunary elements were naturally at rest, while the supralunary spheres rotated in endless circles.

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.