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Oh dear what have I gotten myself into

Yo earthquakes sound scary

The earthquake is the thing all humans face: the banal inevitability of death. We don’t know when it will come, but we know that it will. We take refuge in elaborate precautions, but in the end they are all in vain. We think about it even when we are not thinking about it; after a while it seems to define what we are. It comes most often for the old, but we feel it most cruelly when it also takes away the young.

It was another enactment of the ancient dialogue, its lines written centuries ago, between the entreating voices of women and the oblivious, overbearing dismissiveness of old men.