Antares eve
I like the ambiguity of the phrase itself. Anticipation for a special event and the end of light; the luminous first woman and nightfall (not totally disconnected when we think about the resonance of the fall and the "darkness" derived from it).
The ambiguity continues as we encounter a civilization based on smooth, highly developed, refined "apathy".
We don't get the full manifestation of ancient technology but only "The gradation of glints", which sounds like degradation, decline or degeneration.
The struggle between east and west, reflected in the "latent aspiration" of "calligraphs" and "logograms".
As it was the case with Earth, in this world, religion and spirituality seem to have succumbed to to pleasure
Domes, the erstwhile temples
Absorbing fuchsia balm,
Sit neglected under hedonism's fist.
Thus, a dying star, the dying mother, still invites for gestures of compassion that can invigorate a fading love. It's never too late to save the glow "from the scorpion's heart."
An insightful read - I appreciate it @hlezama! From my youth of reading modern and classic science fiction, I am drawn to contemplate the growth and decline of civilizations on a macro scale. I find most are only concerned with day to day, perhaps years or decades. What of centuries and aeons? A million years is really not much on the scale of the universe. How would our world change if more were inclined to consider the (near-unfathomably) big picture?
Hi, @d-pend. You're right, a myopic view of humanity and their place in the big picture (if contemplated at all) has been the cause of much of what we suffer today and will suffer in the near future.
I guess it is too much for our overall processing mechanism to conceive that most of what will happen will happen regardless of our existence.
We will not be present to see what we want to see.
The immediacy of our reasoning skills puts us in a position of utter selfishness. Mega corporations today, for instance, exploit resources just thinking about cash for today, it does not matter for them that there will be scarcity tomorrow. They won't be here to see it, anyways, so why should they care?