Foretelling the Fall of the Old Man
All the engineering skill in the world – and all the money – cannot build back forever the irresistible force of geology with all the time eternity has its disposal.
All the engineering skill in the world – and all the money – cannot build back forever the irresistible force of geology with all the time eternity has its disposal.
If, indeed, the Old Man is of artificial origin, then some type of signature of intelligent presence may have been discarded or left behind by the original builders.
In a world of rapid and bewildering change, the Old Man was steady at his vigil. He did not change. He was just always there and there was something greatly comforting about that.
No one expected him to stride into the history books, this man named Henri Renaud, but he did, for being the first, and only, Granite Stater to win the Boston Marathon.