Every Chasm Empties Into The Infinite Abyss

Bach: Partita No. 4..(Glenn Gould)..(1/2)

Partita No. 4..(Glenn Gould)..(2/2)

And then she says,
I feel all these footsteps
come loose from the stairs
and move forward in the void,
then plunge...a crowd falling...
And she digs in her heels.
I look through the spaces
between the iron steps
at the colorless flow
of the river down below,
transporting chunks of ice
like white clouds. In a distress
that lasts an instant, I seem
to be feeling what she feels:
that every void continues
in the void, every gap,
even a short one,
opens into another gap,
every chasm empties
into the infinite abyss.
--Italo Calvino