[In a rather obscure piece of Sumerian sacred literature, especially in a poem called "Inanna and Ebih", Ebih is a great and vast mountain, or rather a mountain-range... which is conceptualized as a mythologem of sempiternity and primordiality, but as well of indifference and of the aloof nature of our existential conditions. Ebih becomes that which is unbothered by all human happenings, and the mountain which stood at the very first day, and stands today, and will stand tomorrow, and even beyond the end of the world as we know it; I use the Ebih mythological concept in a similar allegorical manner in my book, which is called "War & Love", an ambitious piece of attack-literature essentially dealing with life in the shadow of Ebih, the harsh and unaffected monolith of the primordial; symbol of the impermanence of human life as paralleled by the imperishability and of the cold and almost mechanical perpetuity of everything around it.]
"Ebih is eternal; she has seen all and she has gotten tired of it; by the time the Batak massacre happened, she started to question her own interest in our human violence; when Nanjing happened, she got even more self-aware. When Kristallnacht, and Katyn, and Babi Yar and then even Auschwitz came around, she began to become cynical, pessimistic, sad, trepidated by the nature of the humans, and she started to distract and preoccupy hersef rather with people who showcased different talents than in the mephistophelean and grisly art of malevolence... and by the time My Lai, Halabja and Srebrenica rolled over the threshold she had become so distraught by the human sadistic grotesqueries as to alienate from them in bitter spite and foresworn those who carried them out... and by the act of doing so, she did not longer weep for the humans, nor much care at all..."
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