Sunday, January 24, 2010

A Considerable Speck

I have a mind myself and recognize
Mind when I meet with it in any guise--Robert Frost

Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Curse of Mining

I'm reading Lewis Mumford's Myth of the Machine.

Here is a quote with a certain degree of chill and truth off from page 239.

"From the earliest times, as Mircea Eliade points out, blood sacrifice had been a ritual accompaniment of metallurgy. The curse of war and the curse of mining are almost interchangeable: united in death."