Word: whorls
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...naked. He looked at himself and knew shame; he felt the wind, was cold. Therefore he stole from the beasts their striped or tawny elegance, he scooped the rock and lived within it. Clothing and architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques...