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Werner
Herzog, one of the most renowned German directors of the
twentieth
century, set out on
a walk across Europe to visit his friend
Lotte Eisner, a well
respected film critic who he believed to be dying.
Walked in another direction
this morning, to the the eastern edge of
town.
As sun crested a mountain storing what history
can’t recall, I
faced
the math of
ninety-three million miles.
Truck’s
horn bellowed over fields, disturbing an important conference
of crows.
To take the path
thousands
of years ago
by the Milling
Stone
People,
is not
to speak this
simultaneous
sense
of deeper
and deeper
recesses of
oneiric
inwardness
within
the stillness
of
the
stone,
and the
name
we
gave them.
'There are many, many
worlds,' he told me.
'One day you will see that the many worlds
are separated by little more than a dream.'
Where
am I going,
with the
sun
in my eyes
patting
me
on
the back?
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