The book’s title is borrowed from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit philosopher whose notion of an “omega point” foretells the inevitable peak of consciousness at some distant stage in mankind’s evolution. Elster’s desire to go “past knowing” brought him to the desert, where he’s confronted with the explicit geology of mountains and desolation, and time disappears. “I don’t get old here,” he says. See more here.
gitelone 