Levity in these times usually refers to a state of humorousness or lightness of manner. From the liner notes of guitarist Albert Vila's Levity, however, we read that levity was originally thought to be a physical force, like gravity, but pulling in the opposite direction. But consider a word grown from the same root as "levity," the word "levitation," which refers to rising from the Earth under the influence of an unseen power... [ read more ]