The Switzerland I Love Author:Francois Nourissier Switzerland is the knot in the wood, one of those knots that break saws; invasions have passed around it, as the carpenter's trying plane is obliged to deviate from the grain.
The Rhône sidesteps it, the Rhine goes in search of other slopes.
Switzerland is the unity of matter in its densest form, the stone of the fruit as the plains are the pulp.