“Principia nunquam parva”
by Quinn Tyler Jackson
ars ipsa loquitur
“Principia nunquam parva”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
— Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Prop. 7)
“Principia nunquam parva” is no longer posted in full here.
It will appear in our forthcoming short story collection, Orphea and Eurydicus (Ravensvale House, 2026), available as a Kindle edition and in print.
The story is discussed in Quinn Tyler Jackson, “Media Nox in post Tempestatem: Towards a Solution to the Problem of the Fourth Wall” (2026), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21971291.
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Quinn Tyler Jackson has been a bookseller’s assistant, a freelance editor, a literary agent, an independent publisher, and a mathematician. Jackson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada. His award-winning work spans nearly four decades and includes novels, short story collections, poetry, and short fiction published in literary magazines and online journals.
He lives on Gabriola Island in British Columbia with his beloved, where they make their home a cat sanctuary. He continues to write fiction and poetry, paint, compose and perform music, and conduct scientific research.
