(Above and Below)
Bryant Avenue, Roslyn Harbor, NY. Images: Google
WALL STORY
ERIC DARTON
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Once upon a time there was a Little Wall That Couldn’t…
Couldn’t what? Couldn’t keep things in or out… So what made it a wall, then? The minds of the people who looked at it and said “There’s a wall.” Well, why did they think it was a Wall? Because it was a wall. And it also wasn’t… Are you saying a wall is a mental creation? Even if it’s really made of solid materials, it starts, it stands, and it falls as a mental creation. That people share? That people share. If they are willing to be divided. Or if those on one side are afraid of the ones on the other side. Then isn’t outside a kind of inside? Depending on where… Exactly. So people build walls to keep others out… And to keep themselves locked in. It’s all very confusing. True. But the secret of walls is that… They eventually are pulled down or fall on their own. And even when they’re standing, they don’t really work as intended – the Great Wall for instance… Which is something the Little Wall understood. So no one needed to knock it down… [to be continued] 
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