All of us, all of us, all of us
trying to save
our immortal souls, some ways
seemingly more round-
about and mysterious
than others. We're having
a good time here. But hope
all will be revealed soon.
from "In Switzerland," Raymond Carver (1985)
The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will
collapse under their weight. The righteous
will cross the paper bridge, and it will support
them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose
as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only:
to build a paper bridge to the world to come.
Dara Horn, The World to Come