Word: heartwood
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...before the rainy season, beginning in April, will make further searching impossible. But no one in Laos doubts that the royal sandalwood will be found. After all, the tree has been growing through the centuries just for this moment and this royal purpose-to enclose in its sun-yellowed heartwood the body of its predestined King...
...went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using it), but. 2) heartwood mahogany, placed well up from the ground, had resisted the white ants 60 years and more. He also checked his belief that, treated with modern preservatives, mahogany would last indefinitely. Then, telling himself that "if there is no native architectural tradition, you have to start one," he set about solving...
...striking than parallels-if, indeed, when we treat of so wayward a thing as human nature it be possible to find two lines of life that run parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails of effect because...
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