One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers. - Werner Herzog

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?