| | Notes for Chile on...Geometry and Death
J. G. Ballard on "the architecture of death":
"... a huge system of German fortifications that included the Siegfried
line, submarine pens and huge flak towers that threatened the
surrounding land like lines of Teutonic knights. Almost all had
survived the war and seemed to be waiting for the next one, left behind
by a race of warrior scientists obsessed with geometry and death."
-- The Guardian, March 20, 2006
Edward Hirsch on Lorca:
"For him, writing is a struggle both with geometry and death."
-- "The Duende," American Poetry Review, July/August 1999
"Rosenblum writes with
absolute intellectual honesty,
and the effect is sheer liberation....
The disposition of the material is
a model of logic and clarity."
-- Harper's Magazine review
quoted on back cover of
Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art,
by Robert Rosenblum
(Abrams paperback, 2001)
SINGER, ISAAC:
"Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?"
-- Top of the News 29 (Nov. 1972): 32-36.
"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children
and laments 'slice of life' and chaos in
children's literature. Maintains that children
like good plots, logic, and clarity,
and that they have a concern for
'so-called eternal questions.'"-- An Annotated Listing of Criticism
by Linnea Hendrickson
"She returned the smile, then looked
across the room to her youngest
brother,
Charles Wallace, and to their father,
who were deep in
concentration, bent
over the model they were building
of a tesseract: the square squared,
and squared again: a construction
of the dimension of time."
-- A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
by Madeleine L'Engle
For "the dimension of time,"
see A Fold in Time,
Time Fold, and
Diamond Theory in 1937.
"... Philip of Austria... longing
to discover the Muse and the Angel in theology, found himself imprisoned
by the Duende of cold ardors in that masterwork of the Escorial,
where geometry abuts with a dream and the Duende wears the mask of
the Muse for the eternal chastisement of the great king."
Perhaps. Or perhaps Philip, "the lonely
hermit of the Escorial," is less lonely now.
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