At issue is what will become of this grand edifice. We built it
up and into the sky in the hopes of reaching heaven and now as
it crumbles down around us we find that this great distance we
thought we'd traveled can close in an instant. So what now?
Because a person flung backward by adversity can run away
in the direction flung, meekly stay put, or slowly, grudgingly,
inch-by-inch until foot-by-foot begin the journey back whence
he came to resume the struggle.
-from Personae