Susan Sontag Quotes

Maybe It Is Not The Destructiveness Of The Volcano That Pleases Most, Though Everyone Loves A Conflagration, But Its Defiance Of The Law Of Gravity To Which Every Inorganic Mass Is Subject. What Pleases First At The Sight Of The Plant World Is Its Vertical Upward Direction. That Is Why We Love Trees. Perhaps We Attend To A Volcano For Its Elevation, Like Ballet. How High The Molten Rocks Soar, How Far Above The Mushrooming Cloud. The Thrill Is That The Mountain Blows Itself Up, Even If It Must Then Like The Dancer Return To Earth; Even If It Does Not Simply Descend - It Falls, Falls On Us. But First It Goes Up, It Flies. Whereas Everything Pulls, Drags Down. Down.

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