“le Courant vaste et désolant.” / Memorable Fancies #2240

 [“The great Current, the vast and desolate Current moving underneath.” – Henri Michaux]

There is a great current in the earth beneath us, moving stone and dirt like some dry Gulf Stream. We feel it. It moves us. Sometimes it shakes the walls of our hovels. The next day we shore them up with timbers stolen from hovels that did not survive. Owned by those who did not survive…