The Arcades Project - Operi

also Revolution and war, like a fever, are hest suited to get it moving . ... Seeing
that the psychology of the individual is now outmoded, let us call upon a sort of
natural history of volcanic rhythms and suhterranean streams. There is nothing
on the surface of the earth that was not once suhterranean (water, earth, fire).
Nothing in the intellect that has not been digested and circulated in the depths."
Dr. Pierre Mabille, "PrHace it l'Eloge des pn!juges populaires," Minotaure. 2,
no. 6 (Winter 1935), p. 2. [K4,2]
"'The recent past always presents itself as though annihilated by catastrophes."
Wiesengrund, in a letter .15 [K4,3]
Apropos of Henry Bordeaux's recollections of his youth: ""In sum, the nineteenth
century ran its course without in the least appearing to announce the twentieth."
Andre Therive,