Listening left us also with the knowledge that, once you stop to look, everyone has the most beautiful eyes.
From Harper's Magazine June 2006
Constance at the Home: Yes, Frank. I'm here at the home of a family we believe may have fallen victim somehow to the event of night, down here, tonight.
The scene is quiet. The lights at this simple one-story home are all off.
A sprinkler,on a timer, waters the lawn in long, even sprinklings of water.
The scene is dark. In the darkness, a floodlight, activated by a motion detector, will periodically flood the lawn and drive with light. What is felt most here is the mystery. The unspectacular mystery.
What remains for us to feel - after having knelt down to feel the worn-out welcome mat, looked up at the humble shape of a simple house - is, again, the mystery. The feeling that there are deep, deep things in the world. Structures, vacancy, people, departures - and all of the strange-sounding names of things, to name only a few. We just a moment ago learned that it was only so long ago that the residents of this modest off-white home gathered on the perfect lawn here, to throw horseshoes and eat food. Also, lather that same day, they made a human pyramid. Which, still a little later, in laughter, collapsed. Frank?
--Will Eno
Constance at the Home: Yes, Frank. I'm here at the home of a family we believe may have fallen victim somehow to the event of night, down here, tonight.
The scene is quiet. The lights at this simple one-story home are all off.
A sprinkler,on a timer, waters the lawn in long, even sprinklings of water.
The scene is dark. In the darkness, a floodlight, activated by a motion detector, will periodically flood the lawn and drive with light. What is felt most here is the mystery. The unspectacular mystery.
What remains for us to feel - after having knelt down to feel the worn-out welcome mat, looked up at the humble shape of a simple house - is, again, the mystery. The feeling that there are deep, deep things in the world. Structures, vacancy, people, departures - and all of the strange-sounding names of things, to name only a few. We just a moment ago learned that it was only so long ago that the residents of this modest off-white home gathered on the perfect lawn here, to throw horseshoes and eat food. Also, lather that same day, they made a human pyramid. Which, still a little later, in laughter, collapsed. Frank?
--Will Eno
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