All of existence was paradoxical, and Erwin had understood this truth a long, long time ago.
Existence itself was the first paradox. To exist required differentiation from non-existence, yet non-existence could not truly be non-existent if it served as the contrast point for existence.
The moment you defined what existence was, you simultaneously defined what it was not, and that definition created the very thing you claimed did not exist. Existence required non-existence to have meaning, and non-existence required existence to be recognized. Neither could be without the other, yet both claimed to be the opposite of what the other represented.
Chaos was paradoxical in its very nature. It claimed to be disorder, yet disorder was itself a category, a classification, a type of order imposed upon what supposedly resisted ordering. True chaos could not be recognized as chaos because recognition required patterns, and patterns were the antithesis of what chaos claimed to represent.
