Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Héctor Tobar, from Deep Down Dark

"Yonni Barrios places his ear to the stone. 'It was like listening to the inside of a seashell,' he will say later. You hear nothing and you hear everything, you can imagine an ocean roiling inside that shell, and then you take away your ear and realize it's all an illusion." p. 92

 - Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, Héctor Tobar

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