The Old Terroirs

The old European terroirs of thought.

The brown earths of France and Germany. Thick, with an A-horizon, good for thought crops. The chernozem of eastern Europe – so deep and dark. So fertile. The luvisols of central Europe – full of clay in the B-horizon …

All the graves, in the European oil. The bodies. The fascisms. The … communisms. The revolutions and the failed revolutions.