ATDTDA (14) references p 386 - not quite _that_ straightforward of a page

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 30 19:48:10 CDT 2007


Fine subtle find........Cf. the carriage (and other?) rooms in M & D that are LARGER inside than from the outside???........are these "inflected"?
   
  Rooms....where humans are.....are larger inside.........!!!!  Deeply Thematic??
   
  

David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
  inflect

• verb 1 Grammar change or be changed by inflection. 2 vary the
intonation or pitch of (the voice). 3 technical bend or deflect
inwards.

So uninflected walls would be flat, and in the case of the painters
below, they would be somewhat uniform counterpoints to the natural
forms of the orchards being painted.

On 7/27/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
>
> high uninflected walls -
> http://www.johnsheridanart.com/poorceza.htm
> In the summer of 1870, it was decided that Cézanne would paint outdoors alongside Pissarro at Pontoise, and co-develop a motif. They chose to paint an orchard with the white and *uninflected walls* [asterisks mine] of various houses rising above and behind, as their composition



       
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