Permanence

Posted on August 17, 2003 in Book of Days Reflections

Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: Nothing has changed.

Scientists weighed the International Kilo, a cylinder of gold in an airless Parisian vault, and discovered that it had lost weight. Bits of it had eroded, sloughed off. They know not where the atoms went.

How can we look at anything now and affirm its permanence?

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Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: At the other end of the street.