Status Updates From Il deserto dei tartari

But at a certain point, almost instinctively, you turn around and see that a gate has been bolted behind you, closing off the way back. You feel something has changed. The sun no longer seems motionless; it’s rather moving rapidly, much to your dismay, leaving you hardly any time to watch it plummet toward the edge of the horizon…You grasp the passage of time and the inevitable end of the journey.

You walk placidly, surveying what lies about you with curiosity…Thus your heart begins to beat with desires, both heroic and tender. You savor the foretaste of the marvelous things that lie in wait farther ahead. You still don’t see them but you’re certain, absolutely certain, that one day you shall reach them.