"Have you not read in Diderot, Master, how one can eat a marble statue by making it eatable? One pulverises it very fine and then grows plants on it. These will absorb the material thus, when eating these, one eats also a little marble. What do you think of it?"
"First, a pulverised statue is not a statue. Second, it is a True Word in but a vague way. One must reason on atomic level, yet, that is the very excellence of all living things, namely, the atomic control, knowledge, and manipulation. Do, study the controversies with regard to: 'milleu interieur / millieu exterieur' or, the question 'WHEN' a particle of food (or Oxygen, water etc. ) becomes part of the person, i.e. alive. It is very interesting. But you should also study the basic principles of the 'surface / volume' ratio. Through that, you gain insight in the possibility to cause an explosion by a marble statue."
"Is that then possible Master?"
"Indeed. By pulverising finer and finer, the surface / volume ratio gets so favourable that the particles have ample access to oxygen. When one makes it into a dust cloud, a spark or flame could set off an explosion. All things in Nature hang together, as you know. It even has a bearing on the why it is important to masticate your food properly. But aside, Diderot was a Lucretian, one of those who was beginning to see the light of True Words, of the liberation from our absurd superstitions that rule our wretched lives."