the “Cliff Palace,” a stone structure made by the ancestors of the Pueblo people, abandoned by the 14th Century A.D. Picture taken in 2018. (x)For whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the common destiny of creatures and he will subside back into the primal mud with scarcely a cry. But who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe[.]“the Judge,” in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (page 158).