@dioscuri People underestimate how intellectual and erudite many blue collar workers are - some of the most well read ppl I've met are electricians, plumbers and masons
Ernst Jünger, On the Marble Cliffs:
“I felt, almost with anguish, words and phenomena sprang apart like the cord from an over-taut bow. I had seen a fragment of the iridescent veil of this world, and from that hour my tongue failed me.”
'You know what Aquinas says: The three things requisite for beauty are, integrity, a wholeness, symmetry and radiance. Some day I will expand that sentence into a treatise.'
James Joyce
“Unconnected remarks, chance encounters are transformed into the most blatant proof in the eyes of a man of imagination if he has any spark of fire in his heart.”
Schiller