academic work

"Then I discovered by magic (so it seemed to me then)
the wonders of a substance I had known since before the world;
a fluid that occupies all spaces and never stops in a shape;
which can have the strength of a mountain and yet offers no resistance
to our fragile hands passing through it;
a good material which, when it stiffens,
has the sweetness of becoming white like nothing else on earth
and falling from the sky, with so much grace, as to look like silk.
Only water could I have chosen as the matter to transform..."
— Armando Di Nardo