Here By Glimpses Known
27 Jun 2012 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhackPretty much in our backyard...
On the Basque coastline, La Pile D'Assiettes (the stack of plates), which is just two-minute walk from where I like to go to write:
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On the Basque coastline, La Pile D'Assiettes (the stack of plates), which is just two-minute walk from where I like to go to write:
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present. — Hans Cloos Conversation with the Earth (1954)
And in context:
And in context:
Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made. — Charles Kingsley; 'Thoughts in a Gravel Pit', a lecture delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, Odiham (1857). The Works of Charles Kingsley (1880), 282.
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Date: 27 Jun 2012 09:14 pm (UTC)The stacked plates do also look like pages--wasn't it you who posted stone pages, to be read?
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Date: 28 Jun 2012 08:26 pm (UTC)Falling asleep crying is just miserable. You wake up all puffy feeling. :-/
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Date: 28 Jun 2012 02:17 pm (UTC)I don't know why I haven't told you that before...it's been true a long time!
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Date: 28 Jun 2012 08:25 pm (UTC)Where have you been of late? How are V and your Boy? Are you still writing? You don't have to answer all of that if you don't want to. :P