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Hard Suppose you have to move a mountain. Do you call up All-or-Nothing Limited with blasters in battalions, and dispatch the under- and the other-worldly straight to smithereens? A moment blows what several thousand years could ease— time moves the planet all the time without demolishing the delicate—no opposition between powers, no antipathy of east to west. The networks go so far and fine we can't conceive them—intricacies of a single rock or river, rate of rainbow—look! I can't get over it. Let all your big bulldozing eras snore their fast Manhattans down; let lovers of the good and quick erect their clever rocks (the graveyard has its own downtown). Let book-ends wind up being all our reason for the books, and men learn only yes and no in other people's languages, believe no code but cracked (perhaps their wills need execution often). I have harder work to do, a teardrop at a time, until the whole world's stoneworks soften. 204 ...