Human folly is to believe our ziggurat is real, a really long time. But as the founder of modern geology Sir George Lyell declared only as recently as 1830, " Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them." Watching the days go by, we write, we build, we grasp, we render frangible towers in the sky. Matthew Cooperman' s Time, & Its Monument captures...
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