” —Dudley Herschbach

to think again about what is to be done

Stadtnatur ist kein nachträgliches Korrektiv der Stadt

And accordingly

‘Nature might not heal disabled bodies

How to live from fire to fire geological time ” —Dudley HerschbachThe French believed that burning the king of the carnival would suffice to erase these old stories and impose a modicum of order in the beautiful Caribbean colony. They thought that everyone would return home and that the streets would take on their usual amnesiac calm after this necessary moment of release. At the end of the celebration, on Ash Wednesday, King Vaval would be burned and along with him, corruption, excess, and bad lives would burn too.