“Who speaks here of appropriation? Let everyone know that mankind, by his complex and multiple nature, is not ignorant of the methods by which to enlarge his horizons: he lives in the water like a sea-horse; in the upper layers of the atmosphere like the osprey; and under the ground like a mole, a woodlouse and the sublimity of the earth-worm.”
“Grave-digger, it is wonderful to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is more wonderful yet to contemplate the ruins of men.”
Lautréamont, Maldoror
