May 07, 2004 16:29
Have you ever watched two friends get shoved apart? You watch from the sidelines, hating that you can't do anything about it. You stare at their arguments, watching a gaping hole grow bigger. The earthquake splitting them, whose shocks had always rumbled but also had always soon faded away, creates a chasm, the like of which you had never expected, for all that the signs were always there.Two of the earth's continental plates collide, sending mountains sky-high, as you wonder If time will ever be able to wear them down to dust. And you wonder whether or not you too will be killed in the aftermath.