up:: [[Direction (re Flow)]] tags:: #on/Constraints #source/quote/100 Dantes asks, > "What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?” The wise Abbe replies, > "Possibly nothing at all; *the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies.* > > Captivity brings light to the treasures of the human intellect, just as compression is needed to explode gunpowder. > > From the collision of clouds electricity is produced; from electricity, lightning; from lightning, illumination." - [[1844 - The Count of Monte Cristo (book)]] ### My notes Captivity, compression, collision... concentration, density, tightly-packed light, spark, explode, electricity, lightning, illumination > The tightly-packed collision of clouds produces intense electricity in the form of lightning; and from lightning comes illumination. The same is true for ideas. I mash up this concept from [[Alexandre Dumas]] with the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland in my LYT workshop lesson focused on [[Thought Collisions]]. Over at [[MOCs are Dialectics]], we continue marinating in this pressure cooker of thought.