"Some images touch and wound the soul at its center. A human face that inspires at the same time both desire and the dread of approaching it, because of the fear of harming it, whose change we cannot imagine, and whose extreme fragility we intensely feel, which tears up our soul by the roots, and which makes us sense that we are nailed to it, is that kind of image." -- Simone Weil
Sulphur: We're being suffocated by it. President Chavez calls out the Texas Cracker Devil and the United States in an astonishing 2006 UN speech, not knowing (none of us did) how much more effective and slicker a devil would be Bush's successor.
