“They spoke to me of night, of total night, that of blindness and anxiety, of night in the mine where you hear the earth cracking overhead. They spoke to me of fire, of burning coal, of cokeworks, of the heat underground, of the flow of metal at the melting point, pouring sulfurous clouds over the laundry drying on clotheslines, something no one saw as a problem.” (Michel Séméniako)