Modus Eundi

German and English are both technical, scientific languages. They are full of useful words like kompressor and piston. French and Italien are Romantic languages. Water towers become water castles in French which gives a totally different vision of something industrial and mundane.

I want to believe science is a good thing, a positive in a world charged with negatives. I think about DDT and chain reactions, of stem cells and research and think about making mistakes and how some things seemed like a good idea at the time…..