opening the throat

October 8, 2011



"And then there is Günter a German carpenter, who didn't use electric tools at all. He would just come up to the house with a set of hand tools in a beautiful wooden box with a handle, which he'd carry around. and Günter--I'd watch this man-- did little detail work on Douglas fir. He would put these two pieces of wood together and then he'd rub his old, battered thumbs against the seam-- and the seam would disappear. It was like a magic act, the pieces fit so perfectly. Günter was a real carpenter."--David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish