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...locations that the average visitor to Paris is never to see. To enter the Institut, if one is not an immortal oneself, a personal recommendation from one of the elect is required. Yet, not counting among friends or acquaintances any member of the academies, I gingerly proffered my Cantabrigian parchment. After a series of formal exchanges in my very best (but still quite mediocre) French, I found myself with a flowery endorsement by the secrétaire perpétuel of the Academy of Moral Sciences. I was soon part of a world of emerald tapestries, of rooms where...
...understand reverence for the flag. It comes naturally to soldiers. We commit our lives to serving intangibles, swearing oaths to a piece of parchment or saluting an expanse of cloth decorated with stars and stripes. We understand symbolism because symbolism is what in large measure compels us to do a job that might result in our demise...
...discuss their cultures and values. Imagine if the Games became a venue for diplomats to meet, as well as for athletes to compete. Imagine if the Olympics linked the world together in the truest sense, instead of merely symbolically, with colored rings on ephemeral pieces of cloth and parchment...
...Frutkin, an Ottawa-based author of three poetry collections and six novels, writes like a fresco sprung to life. You can feel the warmth of the sirocco, the wind that carries fine sand from the Sahara; smell the musty parchment of Cambiati's secret library; and taste the bitter elixirs peddled by the traveling troupe in the town's piazza. The action is broken into short chapters, making the plot trot along at a jaunty clip. Through Cambiati's alchemy and Archenti's reason, Frutkin examines the science of magic and the magic of science. He also keeps...
...this modern technique-it's hard not to feel chilled by the snowy February "landscape." "The Limbourg brothers are about graphic and atmospheric detail," says Pieter Roelofs, curator of the exhibition. "It is the painstaking art, often with one-hair brushes, of re-creating the world they saw on parchment." And indeed, in all 35 miniatures that are assembled, it's the details-the facial expressions of the cavaliers and ladies on a hunt, and even their dogs-that give the viewer the sensation of witnessing the scenes firsthand. tel: (31-24) 3608805; www.gebroedersvanlimburg.nl