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...those glorious long sentences are part of the explanation for the slow decay of Milton's reputation. He's not a poet for the sound-bite century. Consider the famous passage from Paradise Lost, describing Eve in Eden, which is one of the culminating exhibits in Smith's celebration of Milton. The 20-line sentence contains 20 proper names: Enna, Prosperin, Dis, Ceres, Daphne, Orontes, Castalian, Nyseian, Triton, Cham, Ammon, Lybian Jove, Amalthea, Bacchus, Rhea, Abassin, Amara, Ethiop, Nilus, Assyrian. How many people nowadays (even among the exceptionally well-educated readers of TIME) know what all those words mean...
...strangelet’ of huge size.” If you don’t like the prospect of being turned into exotic atomic material without your consent, then perhaps you should consider what’s behind door number two: magnetic monopoles, which “catalyze the decay of protons and atoms” leading to “a runaway reaction.” However, my personal favorite is option number three: a micro black hole. According the complaint filed in court, the growing micro black hole would eventually envelop the entire planet, “converting...
...leaves,” she said. “I’m interested in getting people to think about the life of a leaf from the beginning all the way through leaf bud, new tiny newborn leaf, then at the end of the summer they fall off and decay into the soil.” The Cornell-educated photographer said her work was influenced by artists like Jackson Pollack, and in the case of this exhibition, by one quotation from Pollack in particular: “My concern is with the rhythms of nature...I work inside out, like...
...change. The frustration with cruder attempts is that behind the lip service to “debate,” one senses that there is little of meaning or substance. Instead, these displays are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from the lurid tabloid spreads of Amy Winehouse’s personal decay or Britney’s tiresome new pregnancy. Where’s the line, exactly, between inducing repeated voluntary abortions and mindless stunts like “magician” David Blaine’s several-day stint trapped inside a block...
...sufficient as portraits by themselves, contribute to the backdrop of Docx’s great portrait of St. Petersburg, a city that the author manages, in a passage here and a line there, to sketch with wonderful dexterity. In just a sentence Docx communicates the city’s decay and darkness: “A brutalized dog whimpered in the shadow of the crumbling courtyard. Six P.M now in Petersburg.”Docx’s St. Petersburg is a living city imbued with the qualities of its gloomy, exotically seedy history. As much as the novel revolves...