One should not interfere with fate Ka like a wind Karma? Fate? Destiny? A hidden rose, A shadowed Tower. The brilliance of all suns, The darkness of all void. Time is a face on the water A face, of your father, and thy fathers, before thy father Before Oedipus could write his epic Oedipus, he who has forgotten the face of his father Before Narcissus falls trying to caress the rose in the water beneath the face of time, and his father -- thoughts on "The Dark Tower" and Sec One Literature paper