Lydia Millet in "Mermaids in Paradise"
Sunday, July 12, 2015
At Last Went Paradise
It had taken our ancestors four millions years to figure out fire. It took them five million to develop writing. And then, in a great acceleration... we got electricity, nukes, commercial air travel, trips to the moon. Overnight the white sands of the parrotfish were running out. Here went the poles, melting, and here at last, went paradise. The writing gave us everything all of a sudden, then nothing forever.
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