Hanna Arendt in “Men in Dark Times” (about Walter Benjamin): “This thinking delves into the past…not to contribute to the renewal of extinct ages [but], like a pearl diver who descends to the bottom of the sea, not to excavate the bottom and bring it to light, but to pry loose the rich and the strange, the pearls and the coral in the depths and to carry them to the surface.”
The sign read Land for Sale at this remote site on Red Oak Mountain Road. The ruins pointed to what must have been once a thriving farm with a large home, barns and a chicken coop. The compound looked poignant on a sunny and windswept morning.
