Here are some closing quotes from PJL's book:
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"Vapor" pictures the world as impossible to control. But vapor is also a veil, a screen. Think of how hard it is to drive through a thick fog. Everything disappears. You know there's still a world and a road out there, but the vapor keeps them hidden away. To say that all is vapor is to say that it's hiding something, and Solomon is suggesting that the vapor of the world screens us from God himself, who for the time being, "under the sun," modestly remains behind the veil of the vaporous world.
We don't yet see God putting everything right. We don't see the sovereign hand of poetic justice. Innocents die, sages are ignored, moral pygmies rule the airwaves and the movie screens and many nations. That's what it's like to live in a world of vapor. And that's just what we should expect once we wake from our modern Promethean nap and realize we are creatures, mad from dust, living in a world made from nothing at all. On what were we drunk when we began to imagine we could figure it all out?
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