The White Bone
“In the old songs and poems it is called The Place, or The Island. The Domain, everyone says these days and has said for hundreds of years.
The first or inner band is saline and thousands of miles wide. The second band is wider still, but this water–known as The Eternal Shoreless Water–is fresh. Where the two bands meet a luminous margin, fine as a hair, precludes leakage. And then, beyond The Eternal Shoreless Water, comes The Mystery, which might be anything. Land or water or fire.
Only the de...ad have any acquaintance with The Eternal Shoreless Water. As for the band of salt water, nobody now alive has ever seen it, but a few ancient cows whose memories have not entirely drained recall heroic bulls returning white from salt spray and forever subdued by what they had beheld. In the last half century none of the bulls who has ventured out to The Domain’s edge has succeeded in getting that far, because, they say, of the profusion of humans and the need tomake constant detours around their habitations.MoreLess
The first or inner band is saline and thousands of miles wide. The second band is wider still, but this water–known as The Eternal Shoreless Water–is fresh. Where the two bands meet a luminous margin, fine as a hair, precludes leakage. And then, beyond The Eternal Shoreless Water, comes The Mystery, which might be anything. Land or water or fire.
Only the de...ad have any acquaintance with The Eternal Shoreless Water. As for the band of salt water, nobody now alive has ever seen it, but a few ancient cows whose memories have not entirely drained recall heroic bulls returning white from salt spray and forever subdued by what they had beheld. In the last half century none of the bulls who has ventured out to The Domain’s edge has succeeded in getting that far, because, they say, of the profusion of humans and the need tomake constant detours around their habitations.MoreLess
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