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Silence is intensified into a stone: broken circles are closed: the trembling world, wars, birds, houses, cities, trains, woods, the wave that repeats the sea's questions, the unending passage of dawn, all arrive at stone, sky nut: a substantial witness.
The dusty stone on the road knows Pedro, and his father before, knows the water from which he was born: it is the mute word of earth: it says nothing because it's the heir of the silence before, of the motionless ocean, of the empty land.
The stone was there before the wind, before the man, before the dawn: its first movement was the first music of the river.