Innis

The army had been outside the walls long enough that the people inside had stopped listening for them. You learn to live with a siege the way you learn to live with anything, by pretending it is not what it is. Jeremiah walked out past all of it and bought a field in Anathoth, seventeen shekels of silver weighed out on a scale, witnesses gathered, documents pressed into wet clay and sealed for storage. People who saw him do this thought they understood what they were seeing. They didn't. He was not conducting business. He was making a statement about time, about which part of time mattered and which part everyone else was confused about.