• Arbeitskur

    "You can't imagine what an effective remedy it is for every sort of foolishness. I want to enrich medicine with a new word: Arbeitskur." Levin telling his brother about his day with the scythe in "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy. (Arbeit = work, movement, performance; Kur = cure)

  • Bliss

    The Bliss of the Scythe - "The longer Levin mowed, the oftener he felt the moments of unconsciousness in which it seemed not his hands that swung the scythe, but the scythe mowing of itself, a body full of life and consciousness of its own, and as though by magic, without thinking of it, the work turned out regular and well finished of itself. These were the most blissful moments."

    from "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy