1 Relativity corresponds to the plane on which each thing has its place; perhaps it is even its foundation.
“Faith, too, leaves fossils behind, just as Nature leaves them in lithographic slates. Since the invention of the telescope, the inhabitants of the Moon, the Selenites, have disappeared — that makes no difference to the fact that the Universe is alive.”
2 This observation is brilliant: what draws us to defeated values, to what does us no good, to smoking or neglecting our health, toward the old, the rotten, even the dependence on rot for creation, as happened to Schiller with the smell that came from his desk drawer because of the rotten apples, all of that bears witness to the fossils faith leaves behind.
“Both the hummingbird that kisses the hibiscus flower and the hummingbird that lies in the gray dust and is gnawed by worms are at an equal distance from hidden beauty; both are motifs for the painter, not his aim. In his image we glimpse the worms’ golden explosions.”
3 Our flaws express themselves even when, with all our strength, we move toward the light and air of nature; therefore, what is the value of the decadent, the love of flaws?: one only reaches it, and that is the price paid, not in creation but in what has already been created.
References
- Ernst Jünger — La tijera, Af 64.
Faith, too, leaves fossils behind, just as Nature leaves them in lithographic slates. Since the invention of the telescope, the inhabitants of the Moon, the Selenites, have disappeared — that makes no difference to the fact that the Universe is alive
- Ernst Jünger — Máximas y mínimas a El Trabajador
Both the hummingbird that kisses the hibiscus flower and the hummingbird that lies in the gray dust and is gnawed by worms are at an equal distance from hidden beauty; both are motifs for the painter, not his aim. In his image we glimpse the worms’ golden explosions