The Paradise of Bombs by Scott Russell Sanders

Author:Scott Russell Sanders [Sanders, Scott Russell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1987-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Rain and melted snow seek out every fault, scour passage through every fracture, open tunnels and sinkholes, underground rivers and sudden gurgling springs. The waters make it, and waters unmake it.

Wherever holes have been drilled in the quarry ledges, dirt catches and seedlings take root. Eventually these roots will burst the stone. Our roots also go down into rock—the rock of caves, spearheads, knives, the megaliths and cairns and dolmens of our ancestors, the rock of temples and pyramids, gravestones, cathedrals. Entire millennia of human labors are known to us solely through their stone leavings. The only common stuff that rivals it for durability is language, words laid down in books and scrolls like so many fossils. With a touch of mind, the fossil words spring to life; so might the stones, if we look at them aright.

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