A gradual refinement The steel rail is an artifact whose form has been carefully optimized. This gradual refinement of the design was done not by a single brilliant engineer but by more than a century of industrial evolution. The rail was never meant to be an object of beauty, but its cross section has all the elegance of fine typography. Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape elegancetypographytransportationevolutionchange
Howl's Moving Castle A Film by Hayao Miyazaki If I can't be beautifulScenes by the fireWatermillA candle in the hallThe castle takes flight The ancient fire spirit who lived in the hearthFire, the animating spirit