its doors are shielded by caution and fear of the corrosive nature of nostalgia. And because I’m antique myself now, aware that by the mercy of creation the soonest thing to evaporate in memory is hardship and rain, I understand that between then and now, as between mystery and meaning, there’s maybe too great a gap, and in the world you’re living, this one, the one where it stopped raining in Faha on the Wednesday of Holy Week, might be too far, too remote in time and manner for you to enter.
