Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPIRE, by William Golding. In this medieval parable a saintly, obsessed canon orders a huge stone spire to be built atop his fragile cathedral, only to realize at last that his monument was not to God's glory...
...modern artist has stepped as far out into thin air as wan, visionary Frederick Kiesler, 67. More than steel, stone, bronze, wood or oil paints, his medium is space...
...more, even though he plays a country boy, Gordon's nails are exquisitely manicured, his teeth are expensively capped, and his wardrobe apparently includes a loincloth by Balenciaga. But he's tougher than he looks. In one scene he puts his fist through a paving stone (well, anyway, it looks like a paving stone) almost a foot thick. In another, he connects with an uppercut and rockets his opponent 30 ft. into the air. In the last reel that nasty old Kobrak turns himself into Goliath's double, and at the climax Gordon beats Gordon...
...finish the shaky tower, and the reverberating interior of the church in a storm. But here again Golding's metaphors tend to defeat his purpose. They fail in the long descriptions due to overabundance (in two pages of storm description one sees cosmic wildcats, black crows, sails, masts, stone shoulders, Satan, and clouds of devils). And often they fail to evoke anything because they are simply overblown ("the sunrays wheeled about him;" "the spark and shatter...
...SPIRE, by William Golding. Overriding church, chapter and parish, a saintly dean drives his architect to build a huge, prayer-envisioned stone spire on the shaky foundations of his cathedral, and then realizes on his deathbed that his spiritual inspiration was probably only worldly ambition. A metaphysical summation of his four previous novels (Lord of the Flies, Free Fall, etc.), William Golding's medieval fable is a provocative and often brilliant statement of the helpless and iniquitous nature...