The Earth as Abyss

What’s waiting for us at the bottom? What’s waiting for us there? Is there actually a bottom? Or does the descent just go on forever?

There is no end. There is no bottom. We’re not going to arrive anywhere. We’re just going to sink, that’s all. We’re just being sucked downwards.


We can’t arrive at anywhere. We can’t be anywhere. There’ll be no refuge at the end, just as there was none at the beginning.


It’s just descent forever. More and more tunnels.


We’ve been descending for a long time. Most of our lives, we’ve been going down, that’s all. It’s been almost all descent. Almost all falling – all failing. Our whole lives have been an attempt to find our level – which is low. And isn’t that what we’re reaching now?


What have we done but fall?

But I think we’re falling faster now.

And who’s going to save us? Is it too late to be saved? Tell us, Io – is god going to save us?

And what’s going to break our fall – the earth? But the earth, too, is only falling. The earth is abyss.


We can’t rest. We can’t put our heads down. We can’t sleep. We have to be awake – dreadfully awake. Dreadfully vigilant.