The Tower is everywhere

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 >> P got the Tower image from modernism--Yeats, maybe Pound, maybe Frazier
full of its deep spiritual/religous resonances....<<


Or - think GR and AtD! - from *Tarot*:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_%28Tarot_card%29

Likely both is in P's mix.


On 14.01.2012 22:42, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 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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