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Think of stone. That most elemental of the hard things our soft bodies encounter from childhood to senescence. We pick up a stone and throw it. We skip stones on the water. We sit on stone, and stroke its cold surface. The texture of stone, indelible and brutal, is the most elemental of historical tools, from flints to monuments. We use it to stone the despised, to elevate the illuminated, to shroud our secrets. We memorilaize with stone, and we secure the future against forgetting us, or so we our conceits would convince us. The pride of stony hauteur, the snear of the one en-stoned. The serene prophet immortal in stone. The angry warrior, the horse never lame, forever in flight.
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