Status Updates From We: Unabridged (1929)

“There are clay ideas, and there are ideas forever carved of gold or of our precious glass. And, in order to determine the material of which an idea is made, it is enough to pour upon it a single drop of strong acid. […] But they were afraid of this poison, they preferred to see even a clay heaven, even a toy heaven, rather than blue nothing. But we, thanks to the Benefactor, are adults, and we need no toys.”