Un savoir faire d'artisan

" Needless to describe the sacrality of Iron. Whether it is considered as sent down from Heavens or simply extracted from the entrails of Earth, it still is loaded with sacred power.(When proceeding to make iron), one feels like trespassing onto unmanly realm…, like intruding into a natural order abiding by some superior Law, and interfering in a sacred and secret process… One gets a foreboding … of a mystery in which Human existence is engaged"