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if it’s moving at sufficient speed, a sheet of paper can cut down a mighty oak tree, which explanation, Marvel, I think it was, offered for the Flash’s ability to use his hands as blades to cut through solid objects (Paul Virilio would approve)

[How] even to touch the greatest task … if you cannot collect yourself in such a way that, when the decisive moment comes, you hold the totality of yourself collected in your hand like a stone to be thrown, a knife for the kill? – Franz Kafka quoted by Nicholas Murray in
Simon Taylor