daser
Walking 2
The people here will all be gone long before the carpet beneath their feet wears out. The carpet here will wear out many times and be replaced many times before the building falls. The building here will fall and be replaced many times, but the people here will live on through their ideas, through their art, through their children.
We see the people here as insubstantial, as ghostly figures moving silently along the hallways of a solid and enduring structure. In fact, the steel and stone here, the brick and beams are less substantial than the thoughts and ideas and emotions of the people passing through. The building here is itself a product of thought and ideas and emotions.
Somebody here will write a novel. Somebody here will have a child. Somebody here will draft a law. Somebody here will take a photograph of the people here walking here, here in this building. Somebody here will look at it and write about it, and somebody here will read what was written.
We are here, we are all here, and no hallway in any building and no building ever built can contain us.
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