Where does this leave us? Recognizing persistent evil as an "intermezzo" is not an academic exercise; it is a call to a specific kind of awareness and action.
Frequent use of tritones (the Diabolus in Musica ) to represent the "evil." persistent evil intermezzo
The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness. A cracked teacup, moss on a stone, a half-finished poem. In a Western binary, the cracked teacup is a failure (evil). In wabi-sabi , it is a true intermezzo —a moment of pause between creation and decay. Where does this leave us