Varying Degrees of Light 19 6, Emst Robert Curtis, Buropean Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans, Willard R, Trask, Bollingen Series 36 (New York: Bollingen, 1953; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), Chapter 16, 302-47. 7.Coll 12, sect 8 8, “Psaterium Profanum,” ed. snd trans. into German) Joseph Eberle (Zasich: Manesse Verlag, 1962), 126 9, kinerarium Mentis in Dewn, Opera Oma 5, ed, RP. Bernadini (Claras ‘Aguas: Colegii $. Bonaventurae, 1891), chapter 4. 10. The Mind's Road 10 God, trans. George Boas (New York: Bobbs- Merril, 1953), 28, 11, On the Principles of Genial Criticism: Essay Third (London: Oxford Press, 1907), 232 12. The Divine Names, in: The Complete Works, tans. Colm Luibbeid (New York: Paulist, 1987), 592C.18 Ashlynn K. Pai achieved a synthesis which equaled Aquinas's in its brilliance and complexity, and provides us with an enhanced understanding of the ‘medieval Book of Nature. This synthesis serves as a response not only to Aquinas but to postmodern readers as well, who would misread the Book of Nature as enforcing a polarization of what is natural and artificial, human and divine. Bonaventure was not interested in reinforcing logocentric oppositions but in observing how they coincided. There is a tension in the Hexaémeron between humanity's desire for the infinite and humanity's blindness, which leads to finitude. ‘And though the book of the world can serve as the way or the trace of the infinite, it is nevertheless, paradoxically, an infinity which remains bound. NOTES 1. Summa Theologiae, Opera Omnia 2, e@. Roberto Busa (Stuttgart Frommann-Holzboog, 1980), Pars Prima. Quaest.1. AM.2.3. 2. Summa Theologica, trans. Fathers ofthe English Dominican Province (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947). 3, Siunma Theologica 1.3.5 4. Collationes in Hexatmeron, Opera Omnia 5, ed, RP. Bernadini (Claras Aguas: Colegii S. Bonayenturse, 1891), Coll. 12, sect, 8: the English translations will be taken from Collations on Six Days: The Works of Bonaventure, trans. Jose de Viock (Paterson, Nk: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1970), 5. In the frst chapter of Of Grammatology, entitled “La fin du live et le ‘commencement de 'ecrture” [The End of the Book and the Begining of "), Dersida addresses what at first appears to he an exception 10 his argument thatthe prioritizing of speech i @ condition of logocentrism, During the period from Plato to Descartes, and parculary in the Middle Ages, there is evidence of a mystical appreciation of writing and a heralding of writing as representative of the divine. Suck cases, Derrida argues, are logocentrism