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Holding our Temper

Category: Eve Moore Friday, 28 May 2021 Written by Eve Moore Views: 1045

Holding our Temper

Tempering steel

reduces its hardness

and increases not only

its toughness, but its

ability to meet its

intended use.

Making it less

brittle.

Enhancing

its resistance

to deformation.

It makes it

adaptable to

its purpose by

imposing a tensile

elasticity, a deep

and penetrating

plasticity.

Bridges, say.

High-rises.

Springs.

Swords.

Gears

of a found

music box

that plays “…a

few of my favorite

things…"

Mettle.

Only by

heating and

cooling it off,

again and again.

Cycles of exposure

to contrast, unifying,

fusing, if you will, the

physical structure's

crystalline phases in

to a single-phase

microstructure.

This is what makes a

tempered thing stronger,

able to withstand greater

force, pressure, to take

greater load with

out yielding.

Distorting.

Warping.

Giving

way.

A relatively

unchanged

practice since

ancient days—

this heating and

quenching, even

in baths of urine and

blood—to relieve the

internal stresses of iron-

based materials, enabling them

to handle external stresses,

repetitive and unbidden

shocks, without

succumbing.

In general terms,

a material that bends

is less likely to break.

The end result is a

structural integrity

with maximum

“service life."

How long can

it serve, how

resilient can

it be?

Only

repeated

use will

tell.

Bridges

are made

to sway and

flex with winds

and loads.

They are made

to span chasms

and endure

journeys.

They are made

to withstand

the rigors of

their service

to progress.

Especially

to favorite

things.

“Against this cosmic

background the lifespan

of a particular plant or animal

appears, not as a drama complete

in itself, but only as a brief interlude

in a panorama of endless change.”

—Rachel Carson

∞/∞

Eve Moore: Once a professional writer of advertising, I saw the light & it has shown me words of a different nature. And so I take them down & offer them up. And all is well.

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