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...Alexandria in singing, interpolated paragraphs has more reality than the delineation of the principal characters. When the book is finished the people fade, but the riddles of existence and the cruelties of love remain as vivid images. And Alexandria remains as well, with its dusttormented streets, its lemony sunlight, where even the sulky young "struggle for breath and in every summer kiss they can detect the taste of quicklime...
Moore keeps his figures in the field because he believes that "daylight, sunlight is necessary to sculpture, and for me its best setting and complement is nature." He fully realizes that some open-air sites are wrong for some sculptures, e.g., a windswept hilltop for a realistic statue of a naked adolescent girl. But he likes to place his work "with room to stretch the eye beyond," seeing it in relation to sky and trees, on murky days, in summer sunshine and snow, surrounded by space, air and light. "Indoors," he says, "one can put a piece of sculpture under...
...fitted with two flashlight batteries and a one-tenth candlepower bulb. The airplane flew 110 m.p.h. at 7,000 ft, which simulated the motion of the satellite in its orbit. The dim bulb gave enough light to look like the satellite at dawn or dusk, when it is in sunlight and the earth below is in darkness...
Then Dr. Sinton hitched a supersensitive infra-red detector to Harvard's 61-in. telescope and looked for the same absorption band in sunlight reflected from Mars. Many observations were necessary because of the feebleness of Martian light, but at last the band appeared. Apparently, something on Mars absorbs infra-red in the same way that earthside vegetation does. Dr. Sinton thinks his observation is strong evidence that Mars has living organisms whose bodies are made of compounds containing carbon and hydrogen...
...like the blue gentian gleaming On the hillside by the shalin Purple blue in the sunlight Are the eyes of my Mary...