Word: conclusus
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...first, after a series of primitive cataract operations, distorting his sight toward yellow, and at last toward blue-Monet rarely left his garden; but then, he did not need to. He had constructed a symbolist heaven on his front doorstep, and (since nature and culture fuse in the hortus conclusus-the enclosed garden-of paradise) the circle of his desires was complete. The result was the most consoling art of the 20th century: not simple in its pleasures, but oceanic in its peace, wave upon wave of light rippling through the immense canvases, a palpitation as vast as the encroaching...
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