He writes, as always, with magisterial command of all possible sources in all known languages and a gift for the occasional elegant
epigram derived in part, I suspect, from a lifetime of reading Edward Gibbon for fun.
The title of the exhibition «New Suns»
derives from an
epigram of an unfinished book by the Afro - American science - fiction writer Octavia Butler, which captures the cosmic tension between optimism and pessimism and touched Joseph's soul in depth.