““scattered cracking sounds bristling gaps in the wood every now and then the red mark of a gunshot splinters of a language forgotten or, who knows, in a state of shards, bursting leaps, uproars and stellar winds or the simple rubbing together of our silences if they too should suddenly catch fire these flames, are they like a dance seeking in the night its roots felt and lived the whole length of a life the night outside is white, in the hearth, ardent and fragile beating of the embers of our lives — from "Nuits””
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
