"crystal palace" (WAS: NP Krystalnacht)
calbert at tiac.net
calbert at tiac.net
Fri May 4 14:30:31 CDT 2001
> Germans and your Love for Capital Letters. :) I take it as a
> reference to the ideas embodied/promoted by the Great Exhibition --
> knowledge, commerce, and empire coming together in glorious
> transparency. The term "crystal palace" as a concept (not a building)
> appears in the literature of the Victorian era; Dostoyevsky used it in
> a few of his novels.
The one Dostoevsky refers to is likely the one built for Catherine in
ice......
love,
cfa
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