“Now we are all going back home, after having visited for a moment of weakness this Japanese world that instead, in ancient times, perhaps, in some way, had defended itself, imagining life as a colorful, lightning-fast event, without reasons, without explanations, without structures, without plans, without past, without future, without condemnation and without prize, but charged, concentrated, explosive, tearing, deep, total, burning and definitive.”
Scritto di Notte, Ettore Sottsass (1974)