THE INTERVAL

THE INTERVAL

From the Origin of Inevitable Evil to the Search for the Supreme Good

Thomas was twenty-eight when he realized he was capable of evil — not the dramatic kind, but the quiet, efficient kind that doesn't hesitate. He resigned, shouldered his backpack, and walked out in search of an answer to the question that had haunted him since childhood:

If evil comes so easily and goodness costs so much — what is the point?

On the road, he meets three people who each hand him a piece of the truth: a philosopher who taught Plato for forty years and lost all faith in goodness; a lawyer who chooses evil with open eyes and pays for it in a currency no one else can see; and a monk who has been hoeing the same garden for twenty-two years — falling, rising, and starting over without an audience.

Then comes a flood. A woman clinging to an iron bar. A child who had stopped crying — which was worse than the crying. And in that interval between seeing and acting, Thomas finds what he had been searching for all along.

The Interval doesn't preach. It walks. And by the last page, you will understand something you may have always suspected:

Good is not the opposite of evil. It is the only dam that stands between us and the abyss.

Between good and evil, there is a space. In that space lies your choice.

J. R. Pittuco