--From “Breaking Water” by Erica Neal
“In the beginning the world was flat", Ptolemy told
us. And we believed. Then Copernicus told us our land and
water curved spherically onto itself. This theory defied previous logic, but we learned it to be true. Our thought is a result of our expertise at
the time. And ignorance can be bliss, as
so long as the bliss ultimately does not result in any significant pain or
blood loss.
I was never one for myth, the
facts seem to be more reliable allies to me. But then lies the age-old question- what do you know for sure? Empherically so, the answer truly is nothing. And so to live like this can be a blind walk to
the ends of the ocean, but fortunately for us the ocean leans back on itself, and eventually takes us
to land once again.
Their town was not on the edge of the
world or even near it, it was buried under woods just miles from the
interstate. It was five minutes from its
exit sign and had little history that anyone knew.
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