primal matter

Pointing out the five cars in her front yard, the cleaning lady said they were wrecks her son had accomplished during the past year, that he planned to put parts of them together to make a single usable car for her. “The only thing we don’t have,” she said, “is a good pair of headlights. You know it’s very hard to come out of a wreck with undamaged headlights.” John Cage, "Indeterminacy".