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Epic Amplitude. It is also triumphant proof that high art and decoration can often be the same. The panels of the Apocalypse obey the conventions of medieval miniature painting: the schematic rocks and grass, the abstract wallpaper patterns in the sky. The artist, Hennequin of Bruges, actually based it on...
Some day there will arise a man who will demonstrate in what regions of the heavens the comets take their way; why they journey so far apart from the other plan ets; what their size, their nature.
Comets (from Greek kométés, for long-haired) have been objects of awe, reverence and fear throughout history. The ancients, at least, had a legitimate excuse for their fantasies: no one knew where comets came from or where they went after they disappeared from sight. (Aristotle suggested...
The sun would not suddenly be snuffed out in the middle of the day unless the heavens were trying to say something important....When we'd stepped off the plane at Nouakchott, several people thought they were feeling exhaust from the airplane engines. But it was just an average Mauritanian...
The booklist you received via postal courier: please don't take it too seriously. If you're interested in something that's on it, by all means read it. But for heavens sake, you won't be quizzed on its contents and the material may well have nothing to do...