I'm not a saint, I'm not a soldier

[sovay]

I was woken this morning by the tearing air of a fighter jet going over the neighborhood. spatch later said it must have been a flyover for the Red Sox, but I was half-asleep out of nightmares and afraid it was going to bomb someone.

I woke up properly to discover that Gene Wolfe was dead and Notre-Dame de Paris is on fire.

Isn't it enough just to pay taxes?

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[sovay]

Stones aren't people, I know that: but Notre Dame was the transcendent work of thousands of artists, who put their lives, hopes, hearts, and bodies into it. They made of it a soul-in-stone.

I am taking comfort that not all the stones have been lost and not all of the memory of how they went together and that means not all of the memories of the people over the centuries, or all of the people tonight who sang for it and fought the fire. It's still not good that any of it burned; is burning. I said somewhere upthread, it just doesn't feel like a good time for loss.

*hugs*