The Tower is everywhere

[Mark Kohut]

One reason great artists are great is that the symbols and tropes
they find, create, use are so richly resonant......Can contain so much
beyond literalness, all meaningful. 
 
P got the Tower image from modernism--Yeats, maybe Pound, maybe Frazier
full of its deep spiritual/religous resonances....
 
Today I learned from Confidence Men, that in the secular world of finance,
Shit, Money & No Word, so to speak, the bundling and reinsuring of 
mortgages to diversify risk...........
 
"were also sliced into tranches, a tower of different levels of anticipated risk." 
'tower of tranches' was a phrase, it seems..................
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