A periodic table of the elements in my quest for beauty.
"We must ask of reality: how important is it, really? And: how important, really, is the Factual? Of course, we can’t disregard the factual; it has normative power. But it can never give us the kind of illumination, the ecstatic flash, from which Truth emerges."
- Werner Herzog
And thus begins my posting about my obsession with words, especially those of the German variety for which there is no equivalent in English. What a beautiful emotion! What a perfect mot!