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...tiles are streaked and blotched with rust and orange algae, sweeps and daubs of pigment; the untended pool might have been the scene of a murder, a nastiness complicated but not denied by the big, squishy peony blooms floating on the water. It is Bartlett's aide-memoire, the cam era, that sets the strange flavor of these images. She will paint four or five versions of the same view, shifting position a little each time; the effect is not one of Warhol-like repetition, but rather of alert, frustrated scrutiny, as though the scene held...
Despite this disproportion, The Oxford Book of Dreams is an irresistible sampler. Reading Artemidorus (circa A.D. 150) is like eavesdropping in the imperial marketplace: "Someone dreamt that he had an iron penis. He fathered a son who killed him. For iron is consumed by the rust that it produces from itself." Freud's claim that the ancient Greeks had sensed what he had systematized is borne out by eerie resonances. In Aeschylus' drama, Orestes describes a snake "as though human ... its gaping mouth clutching the breast that once fed me ... it then mingled the sweet milk with curds...
Reminders of a more prosperous past haunt the city. Shells of half-finished high-rises mar the skyline, their struts jutting crazily and their cranes frozen in midair. Hulks of taxis, virtually new trucks, and even public buses rust on roadsides or in overgrown lots because the few spare parts that trickle into Angola are funneled to the army. To its credit, however, the government has managed to maintain a reliable city bus system...
...suspect it's not a bacterial problem--it's probably just some rust in the pipes," said Jessie Norton, a sanitation inspector for University Health Services (UHS). Norton said it would take two days to complete tests of the pool's water, and that Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, would then decide when to reopen the pool...
...hold the marble stones in position. But in doing so, they ignored the wisdom of the Parthenon's original designers, the sculptor Phidias and Architects Ictinus and Callicrates. During the installation of the temple's original iron reinforcing rods, the ancient builders used a form of rust-proofing that has been effective for two millenniums: they wrapped the rods tightly in a sheath of pliable lead, which gave them room to expand and contract, and kept away rust-producing moisture. Unfortunately, later restorers did not seal their irons. So the new rods installed near the turn of this...