Clue 10 Letter
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such divine materials to men, and accepts such<br> | such divine materials to men, and accepts such<br> | ||
leavings from them at last."<br> | leavings from them at last."<br> | ||
- | Autumn Rivulets 287.2<br><br> | + | Autumn Rivulets 287.1<br><br> |
I suddenly feel this world’s cold dispassion.<br><br> | I suddenly feel this world’s cold dispassion.<br><br> | ||
- | Was I once so mauve about such things, thinking<br> | + | Was I once so naive about such things, thinking<br> |
that she offered her joys without cost? Thinking<br> | that she offered her joys without cost? Thinking<br> | ||
that these joys were offerings at all, rather than a<br> | that these joys were offerings at all, rather than a<br> | ||
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deaf to our pleading as she sails through space.<br><br> | deaf to our pleading as she sails through space.<br><br> | ||
- | In my grief, was this marvelous city – as<br> | + | In my grief, even this marvelous city – as<br> |
much like a home to me as the one I left<br> | much like a home to me as the one I left<br> | ||
nearly four years ago – can offer no comfort.<br><br> | nearly four years ago – can offer no comfort.<br><br> | ||
And so I am now back to traveling. Perhaps,<br> | And so I am now back to traveling. Perhaps,<br> | ||
- | like this rock, my only night condition is<br> | + | like this rock, my only right condition is<br> |
- | ?seless motion.<br><br> | + | ceaseless motion.<br><br> |
Then move I shall, until I find a place<br> | Then move I shall, until I find a place<br> | ||
from which to pull a fortune and see if<br> | from which to pull a fortune and see if<br> | ||
that might offer an end to doubt.</blockquote> | that might offer an end to doubt.</blockquote> |
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[edit] Clue 10 Letter
Part of the artifacts collected during the Clue 10 deaddrop in San Francisco.
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“Now I am terrified at the Earth … It turns
harmless and stainless on its axis with such
endless successions of diseas’d corpses … It gives
such divine materials to men, and accepts such
leavings from them at last."
Autumn Rivulets 287.1
I suddenly feel this world’s cold dispassion.
Was I once so naive about such things, thinking
that she offered her joys without cost? Thinking
that these joys were offerings at all, rather than a
trick of my own fragmentary perception?
The cost is in our hope that she might hold
us to her and care for her poor innocents. But
she is a spinning rock, blind to our toil and
deaf to our pleading as she sails through space.
In my grief, even this marvelous city – as
much like a home to me as the one I left
nearly four years ago – can offer no comfort.
And so I am now back to traveling. Perhaps,
like this rock, my only right condition is
ceaseless motion.
Then move I shall, until I find a place
from which to pull a fortune and see if
that might offer an end to doubt.