Places remember events.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.