Word: eudoxia
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...those who've already been through the University's permanent collections at the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger. Neither musuem has gotten any new exhibits together yet, this fall. Instead, you can look at pictures of Pusey Library in Gund Hall's "Books and Buildings" exhibit puzzle out Eudoxia Woodward's geometric flowers and name in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, or if really desperate, count the days till Hanukkah vacation on the Jewish calendars up Widener's stairs...
...again when he describes Eudoxia, a city that could be a parable for Calvino's novel of parables. Eudoxia is a city seemingly without form, but whose true shape is preserved in a certain intricately woven carpet, just as Calvino's empire preserves some semblance of our own. According to an oracle, "questioned about the mysterious bond between two objects so dissimilar as the carpet and the city," one has a god-given form, and the other is "an approximate reflection, like every human creation...
...inhabitants of Eudoxia, of course, assume that the carpet is ideal and harmonious, while the city is the approximation. But the traveller from Venice sees the other possibility as well...
that the true map of the Universe is the city of Eudoxia, just as it is, a stain that spreads out shapelessly, with crooked streets, houses that crumble one upon the other amid clouds of dust, fires, screams in the darkness...
...Jose of Belgium to Rome for her wedding to Italian Crown Prince Umberto; 2) the Maroon Train, generally used by the Italian Royal Family; 3) a more gaudy, less comfortable relic known as the "Old Train" assigned for the wedding to Tsar Boris, his father Ferdinand, brother Cyril, sister Eudoxia...