Word: esotericism
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For Dengler each digit has an ingenious symbolic significance. One means, "I am part of the whole of life, which is one." Fair enough. But the others are more esoteric. Nine, for example, "stands for relationship to essence in the difference in the meaning when actualizing the spatially everpresent nature...
Your presupposition of a "substantial level of personal wealth" as a requisite for entry is just as far off the mark. People can (and have) made significant collections of materials that cost them little or nothing except the wit to perceive that the collection was worth forming. Some of them...
One contemporary critic described Courbet's work as "an engine of revolution." Courbet agreed. He thought of himself as a subversive force: the epitome of the avantgarde, a one-man realist movement. "I am Courbetist, that's all. My painting is the only true one. I am the...
The establishment by the Board of Overseers of cash prizes for those University students with the highest quality personal libraries is wasteful. Students here have access to one of the best and biggest library systems in the world. They have no need to develop their own collections, even of the...
For all its aesthetic resourcefulness, however, Volcano never offers insights into the novelist's torments. Brittain rattles off Lowry's formative emotional traumas?his strained relationship with his parents, his early brushes with homosexuality, his bizarre first marriage?without ever relating them to the rest of his biography. Certainly Lowry...