Descent

You know descent’s all about. You’ve read about katabasis, haven’t you? The old literary trope. Like in Virgil. Like in Dante.

Sure. We’ll come out of this changed. We’ll be unrecognisable. Born again, somehow, from the womb of the earth.

Depth: that’s what we need. Profounds of feeling. Deep despair – not just despair. We should wear the faces of those who have suffered. Who have been through things – life and death things. Spiritual things. Things that we can’t imagine.