Not At Fault

Transcript:
a young person with a mild accent speaking over the sounds of birds and breaking tree branches, reading:
"There is a saying for the wicked in Russian that goes, “How does the earth carry you?”. Lowercase “e” - “earth”, the implication being that it would be decent to swallow you whole. 

I am left thinking of Earth - capital “E”; the thought all the more staggering, all the more stilling. As if, if you are too far gone, you will be exiled from the laws of gravity altogether, 
singled out, 
spat out.

But then the flip side:
gravity as “I want you”;
gravity being a choice
to hold us close to its chest."

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