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“But if it does, most people will still believe what isn’t true, because the truth is heavy to carry compared to the lightness of a lie.”
“My life passes like a shadow,” she says. “Yet a little while, and all will be consummated.”
Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests of poisonous snakes, dens of sharp-toothed predators—a realm where Nature is red of tooth and claw. To Vida, however, the forest is a place of solace and succor where she is welcome because she has knowledge of—and deep respect for—its ways. In her experience, it is civilization, riven by human arrogance and greed and envy, that is, at its worst, a forest of lost souls.
