“In fact, cement is an accumulation of invisible points, with which we make houses, and buildings, palaces and monuments, but also bunkers, airport runways and traffic dividers. Cement is the clay of the twenty-first century, the substance of fabrication of this new artificial world” pp 178

“We can now see why it is precisely nature in its most chaotic, boundless terrifying dimension which is best qualified to awaken in us the feeling of the Sublime: here, where the aesthetic imagination is strained to the utmost, where all finite determinations dissolve themselves, the failure appears at it’s purest” pp 58

“In short, the Sublime is ‘beyond the pleasure principle’, it is a paradoxical pleasure procured by displeasure itself” pp 57

“Above all, however, Beauty and Sublimity are opposed along the axis pleasure-displeasure: a view of Beauty offers us pleasure, while ‘the object is received as sublime with a pleasure that is only possible through the meditation of displeasure’” pp 57