LATECOMERS

From a conversation with Brandon,

a passage from Robert Harrison’s book, Dominion of the Dead.

“…Arrowheads everywhere in the soil. We are all latecomers. To be human means to come after those who came before. Just as we are always preceded by our forebears, so too the ground in which we lay them to rest has always already received the bones of others—‘others’ in the most radical sense of the term, including that of other species, many of whom have died on our behalf.”

—Robert Harrison, Dominion of the Dead