The salt of Cardona had been mined for thousands of years, but now it was a tourist attraction. It came up from deep inside the earth. This mountain of it would somehow replenish forever, according to the brochure in my room. It would keep emerging as if by magic. In Roman times, salt was so precious it served as money. It is the source of the word “salary.” I stood at the window at four a.m. and told myself: You, too, have a core of precious salt. The human core of inner salt, like this salt of Cardona, comes from the deepest part. Human salt, like this salt, is everlasting. Mine it, use it,
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