NP but Walter Benjamin's Theses on History

[Thomas Eckhardt]

The passage deserves to be quoted in full:

"A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though 
he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His 
eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how 
one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. 
Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe 
which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel 
would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been 
smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in 
his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. 
The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is 
turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is 
what we call progress."

https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/CONCEPT2.html

"... the spilled, the broken world."