My God! What kind of people were we? How we’d fallen How we’d plunged! How we’d died! But we knew it! We could see it!
Which is why Livia saw it in us: the opposite of potential. The possibility of knowing our potential-less-ness. And therefore who knew potential. She saw it in us: the opposite of the grounds of hope. Anti-messiahs! The last people who could save anything. And who might therefore save everything …
Work in Progress 