If the worst should happen to our brutal species—at the hands of an imminent and immanent justice and a desirable fate (because disharmony is unbearable)—we may have only a few weeks, months, years, centuries … or just this single moment … with which to consult the works of art we have compiled for your use.
May this modest survival bible allow us the possibility of enduring in the reality of true hunger and no longer in the lie of genocidal appetites, or simply the possibility of meeting our needs without any lack.
Come! The man brings the child close to the river, near the woman sitting at the water’s edge. Who knows that everyone dies so that everything may live among the murmur of colors and words?
—Alain Saury, “Now”
Leitmotif drawing by Rav Bret Koch