“The past is carried to us on simple things- a written page, a spoon, a glove, a bowl of water: carried by the souls who touched them, those plain relics emanate a language freed of time, a language without cadence - mute and eerie as the sound a granite planet makes giving birth to mountains, coursing its way through space.”
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