one of today's M & D discussion topics?--until Becky posts her great stuff

[Mark Kohut]

"Another novelty of the 19th century was the world exhibition, the most salient
combination of panoramic gaze with encyclopedic documentation. It all started
with the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All
Nations...whose spectacular
crystal palace...has remained in the collective memory."----IBID.

For discussion: Has TRP tried to put down a "panoramic gaze' to take in
this kind of panoramic gaze....maybe "a panoramic gaze about the end of
such panoramic gazes?"
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