LESSONS OF DARKNESS
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur like creation-in grandiose splendor. - Blaise Pascal
A planet in our solar system.
Wide mountain ranges, clouds, a land shrouded in mist.
The first creature we encountered tried to comunicate something to us.
A Capital City
Something is looming over the city.
The city that will soon be laid waste by war.
Now it is still alive biding its time.
Nobody has yet began to suspect the impending doom.
The War
The war lasted only a few hours. Afterwards everything was different
After the Battle
All we could find were traces
at human beings actually lived here
had there ever been a city?
The battle had raged so toroughly
that afterwards grass would never grow here again
Torture chambers
We met a woman who wanted to tell us something.
She had been dragged away by soldiers along with her two grown sons
and had to watch her sons being tortured to death before her very eyes.
This caused her to loose her speech, but she still tried to tell us what had happened.
Satan's National Park
This was once a forest, before it was covered with oil.
Everything that looks like water is in actuality oil.
Ponds and lakes are spread out all over the land.
The oil is treacherous because it reflects the sky.
The oil is trying to disguise itself as water.
This lake here as well like everything else is black oil.
And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings
And there was a great earthquake such was not since man were upon the earth
so mighty an earthquake and so great
and the great city was divided into three parts
and the cities of the nations fell
and every island fled away, and the mountains were not found
Childhood
Even the tears were black. When my child weped his tears were black.
When his nose ran, it ran black. Even the spittle in his mouth was black.
The soldiers came at night while the children was sleeping
They dragged this one here out of bed
And one of the soldiers trampled on the childs head with his heavy boot
and then pressed all his weight down on it.
They held on to my husband and me and threatened us with their rifles.
I said "please take your boot away, you are crushing his head.
Look at this little fellow, he hasn't spoke no word since.
It was terrible for me. Then they shot my husband. That was a year ago.
The boy used to be able to talk but now he says nothing more.
Only once he said: "Mama I don't ever want to learn how to talk."
And A Smoke Arose Like The Smoke From A Furnace
And the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven onto the earth.
And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless pit and there arouse a smoke out of the pit
as the smoke of a great furnace
and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke
and in those days shall men seek death
and shall not find it
and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
A Pilgrimage
A Dinosaur's Feast
Protuberances
The Drying Up Of The Wells
Life Without Fire
Two figures are approaching an oil well
One of them holds a lighting torch. What are they up to?
Are they going to reking the blaze?
As life without fire become unbearable for them?
Others, seized by madness, follow suit.
Now they are content, now there is something to extiguish again.
I Am So Weary Of Sighing, O Lord, Grant That The Night Cometh.
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