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...circumstances--artistic, technological, social, political, and religious--which spawn major monuments in civilization. This approach has the advantage of controlling a potentially vast body of material, much of it written about with exotic, difficult terminology, by selecting exemplary temples, shrines, castles, villas and even townhouses such as the eighteenth century Kyoto residence now at the Children's Museum in Boston...
...Eighteenth Voyage, for example, Tichy ponders a problem no smaller than the creation of the universe. A scientist friend has proved to his own and Tichy's satisfaction that the cosmos is "a fluke on the largest possible scale." It exploded from a protoatom that could not have existed; it pulses on borrowed energy as aberrantly as the subatomic particle that violates, for a nanosecond, physical laws. After 18 billion years or so, the universe's "monstrous debt" may come due at any time. Tichy figures out a way to repay it and make everything much nicer...
EXHIBIT: "Scientific Instruments in Eighteenth Century Culture"; Margaret Hutchinson Compton Gallery, Rm. 9-150; through Sunday...
EXHIBIT: "Scientific Instruments in Eighteenth Century Culture"; Margaret Hutchinson Compton Gallery...
...almost ridiculously prolific--the author of more than sixty books--including the best-selling Condominium, and eighteen other novels that precede this one in his Travis McGee mystery series. His eighteenth Travis McGee, The Green Ripper, won the American Book Award for Best Mystery of 1979. Yet, people seem anxious to write him off as a hyperactive, but fundamentally unsound producer of escapist fiction...