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...Italian Bees Grazing a Table in August”; never mind that the fact that they are Italian has no discernible import for the poem. Similarly, in “Surgery,” “A dusting of snow / fastens to roofs / on a row of Delft houses.” In the first poem, “Ornament,” Nilsson informs her interlocutor that “Your heart is as large as an anthill in Switzerland”—presumably, the heart in question is non-existent. Elsewhere, the poet takes...
...symmetry’?” questions one Jem Kellaway, replicating in microcosm the now well-established project of each Chevalier novel: to parse out the complexities of a work of art. As in her depiction of Johannes Vermeer’s city of Delft in her 2000 breakaway bestseller “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Chevalier here evocatively imagines a fictive London surrounding Blake’s creation of the “Songs of Innocence and of Experience.” The year is 1792 and the Kellaway family has just arrived...
...Monet worked in the Netherlands not just in 1871, but again in 1874 and 1886, and biographers offer wildly varying accounts of that first, life-altering Japanese print he bought: it was in Amsterdam, or Delft or Zaandam; at a food shop or a porcelain store; it was being used as wrapping paper or hanging on a wall. Monet himself recalled: "My true discovery of Japan, the purchase of my first prints, dates from 1856. I was 16. I spotted them at Le Havre, in a shop that dealt in curiosities brought back by foreign travelers." But even here...
...simplicity of the solution depends on the quality of the water, and there Murphy's Law prevails. In regions where water quality is questionable, young children should drink boiled water from properly cleaned containers. Johannes H. Kop Delft, the Netherlands...
...President-Elect (2009) World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Athens The simplicity of the solution depends on the quality of the water, and there Murphy's Law prevails. In regions where water quality is questionable, young children should drink boiled water from properly cleaned containers. Johannes H. Kop Delft, the Netherlands time reported that 5,000 young children in the developing world die each day from diarrhea. Gastroenteritis is due to unchecked population growth and overcrowding, to humans' overtaxing their environment. The most stable environment is one in equilibrium. Growth leads to instability and breakdown. It is unfortunate that...