Do you still laugh sometimes? Do you know how to lose yourself completely all over again in a moment of elemental joy—because of a view of houses, a human atmosphere, a song, a bit of landscape, a piece of film: in short a piece of good warm life? It’s something I love so much in you.
[Simone Weil, from a letter to Albertine Thévenon]
and because Old Dutch Cleanser was made by Cudahy, because the woman in clogs with her stick looks like she has no time for looking at ‘the viewer’ because she’s busy going off to whale on something, and because she has a forearm like a lumberjack, and because it says “chases dirt,” we love this tin placard.
