Status Updates From The Earth is Falling

“You were sure that you couldn't do without us.
Reasonable enough, if you'll forgive me. But now that your houses too are about to consign themselves to the soil, now you call for time to go backwards, that we may feel the weight of the earth on our shoulders?”

“You were quick to free yourselves of us. It was right, too, the past belongs to the dead, we can agree on that. You were the eternal present and we the ballast, the imposture to be confined where a disbelieving voice recited the prayer for the dead..”

'We are a crowd of the invisible, banished swiftly from your lives, says Cola Forti, interrupting my confused thoughts, 'a crowd that remains in the obscurity of the village…”

I hated the great immortal peace that, as era followed era, constantly forced men into the same places as before, always the same places.

'Reality is never unambig-uous, she adds, 'there are dozens and dozens of answers, rebuttals, devastating rejoinders and the like.’