With a perspective that stretches towards the omega point of things, this project of multigenre philosophy by John O'Loughlin dates from the early '80s, at a time when the author was just beginning to find his philosophical way, and develops its sense of the 'post-atomic' through a series of stages and genres, from essays and dialogues to aphorisms and maxims, towards the possibility (only hinted at here) of some more definitive resolution in subsequent texts. Certainly the 'metaphysics', as one could describe these post-atomic theories, is only formative at this comparatively early stage of John O'Loughlin's vocational advance, but still warrants respect for its attempt to break free of conventional moralizing and theocratizing.