...each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear.

Joan Lowery Nixon
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In the poem "Like so many pillars of salt" by Edgar Allen Poe, the protagonist says that as we look back we can see we were all alone on a plain of salt. When we look back it is easy to see that we never had help from anyone. We all worked alone and we all became pillars of salt. The protagonists says the only way he and the others could survive was to not look back and also to not let anyone know they were there.

Source: The SaAnce

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