Musings of a sensitive young Norwegian man. «He is dressed in a striking yellow suit and has a small bottle of prussic acid hidden in his vest pocket…»
As for Protestantism, without which the new world and its technology would be
unimaginable, it was much harder for it to penetrate into the wine drinking countries than into the Nordic countries.
- Ernst Jünger
One of the reasons Proust appeals to me now is that as I have advanced decades into this journey the puzzles of time and memory return again and again for me like a sore spot I cannot stop touching. No one else has captured this feeling we have for our own past the way he does here.
Every enjoyment lives thanks to the spirit. And every adventure lives thanks to the proximity of death, around which the adventurer revolves.
- Ernst Jünger