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What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imaginations? Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger...
Giant Tensor. There has always been a feedback between the "fine" and the "applied" arts, and some Italian designers approach this in a deliberately eclectic and unsettling way. Thus Claes Oldenburg's funky gigantism is parodied in Gaetano Pesce's "Moloch" floor lamp: a tensor desk light enlarged to a height of 9 ft. And, just as many a Victorian bronze looked better with a lampshade than as sculpture, the use of neon tubing becomes laconically appropriate in Ettore Sottsass's "Asteroid" lamp. What goes on with such designers is not a passive borrowing of fine...
...formal or political, Baillie's vision harkens back to an earlier time and a less painful consciousness-the beat sensibility of Ginsberg and Snyder. Struggle somehow seemed simpler then: perhaps the enemies all came in capital letters. It was Technology against poetry back in the fifties Machines against men, Moloch bludgeoning Blake...
...Moloch whose fingers are ten armies...
...Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!. . . Moloch whose name is the Mind...