The Rock Will Be Melting

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The inferno of the living
is not something
that will be;
if there is one,
it is what is already here,
the inferno where
we live every day,
that we form
by being together.
There are two ways
to escape suffering it.
The first is easy for many:
accept the inferno
and become
such a part of it
that you can
no longer see it.
The second is risky
and demands
constant vigilance
and apprehension:
seek and learn
to recognize
who and what,
in the midst of inferno,
are not inferno,
then make them endure,
give them space.

--Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities



Peter Tosh: Downpresser Man...2/22/79