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Then there is the refusal to submit to external schemes or narratives. The Gates of Hell cannot be read as clearly as a Renaissance fresco or a medieval Last Judgment. It is less about divine doom than the condition of secular despair, mauvaise foi, the unrooting of the self-a vast and almost illegibly complex dirge that touches now and then on the original imagery of the Inferno but does not, in any strict sense, illustrate it. Yet its formal properties-the sudden shifts of scale, the aggressive protrusions of figures from the bronze skin, the sense of strain...
...changeable as water. In her black dress, with her slim body and her sudden silences, she might, indeed, have seemed one of the dark and mournful shadows that haunted the house, one of its presages of doom ..." The Sitwell mystique centered on her extraordinary physical presence. Six feet tall, with the beaky, piercing look of a falcon, Edith would have appeared a freak if she had tried to resemble ordinary human beings. Instead she turned herself into something marvelously Gothic. She wore cowled headpieces, gold brocade robes, huge jet and ivory rings, and stared the world down with Byzantine eyes...
...back. The victim may become extremely short of breath, break into a cold sweat, feel weak and nauseated and possibly vomit. Along with these signs and symptoms, there may be palpitations. The face can turn a ghastly gray, and the patient may experience anxiety, even a sense of impending doom. Says Cardiologist Marshall Franklin of San Diego's Clairemont Community Hospital: "It is like nothing the patient has ever known before, a feeling that something cataclysmic is happening...
...Mitterrand, he remains optimistic that the constitutional hurdles can be overcome somehow. Asked in a pre-election interview whether the lack of a workable majority might doom his presidency, he replied: "I believe that this time the institutions of the Fifth Republic that have barred us from power for so long will contribute to keeping us there." It is a tribute to Charles de Gaulle that one of the most bitter opponents of his constitution is now preparing to adapt it to an entirely new set of circumstances...
...Lord, who took the form of a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. The 40-year wandering was to punish Israel for its faithlessness. A dozen men were sent into Canaan on a 40-day reconnaissance mission. Ten of the twelve returned with reports of doom. Because their pessimism indicated faithlessness, God meted out a year of wandering for each day of spying...