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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.