Sublime

there is a mystical minimum in human history and experience, which is at once too obscure to be explained and too obvious to be explained away.

History does not consist of completed and crumbling ruins; rather it consists of half-built villas abandoned by a bankrupt-builder. This world is more like an unfinished suburb than a deserted cemetery.

You are dealing, you see, with the Law of the Minimum.” She heard the testing quality in his voice, said, “Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.”

provisional,

“Constitutions

She cannot see that wills and not words control events.

It would be worse still if this short human life were broken up into yet shorter lives, each of which was in its turn forgotten.

'Háni! Sons éso tse-ná!' And