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...casued by the earth's rotation is so slight that even the smallest countermovement can overwhelm it: in the ordinary bathtub, water will swirl out either way-usually in the same direction it was swirled in. Even if allowed to sit enough to stop the force of its inward swirl, the water's natural rotational movement will often be overcome by air currents, uneven heating, surface tension or irregularities in the shape of its container...
...they have already done in their mother's womb. And so it turns out. When they grow up, both brothers fall in love with the lovely Flora, and she with them. This impasse is climaxed and, in a way, resolved in a hallucinatory scene in which Flora passes inward through their eyes until she penetrates their souls. Once inside their secret selves she finds them-identical...
Cureton's hard-working pupils work out an hour a day, log quarter-mile swims (in cold water, to force blood inward to inner organs) and country hikes (on mountains, if possible, since mountain climbing burns up 600 calories an hour). Diets? Though he warns strongly against sugars, starches and fats for their high caloric intake, he also argues that "you can't put your body in shape by starving...
...brilliant and stimulating article on Dante perpetuates some 19th century misunderstanding of the poet. The most debatable point is that Dante used the Inferno for personal vindictiveness, to damn his political enemies, while demonstrating extreme lenience toward old friends like Brunetto Latini. Dante's work is primarily an inward journey into the soul of everyman and an exposure of the possibilities of evil therein. The figures that Dante encounters, therefore, symbolize evils that the poet condemns in himself as well as in others...
...casually shown an unsigned 17th century oil sketch, The Head of Christ, at the Paul Kantor Gallery. The glimpse proved unforgettable. Recalls Slive: "The left side of the face looks almost like a death's head. Yet the right side is tender. The eyes looked out and yet inward...