M&D - Chapter 16 - Peach and Silk

[David Ewers]

Yes!

On Mar 24, 2015, at 11:36 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Elisabeth Romberg wrote:

> Yeah, its like they are both practitioners of different types of magic.
> 
>> 24. mar. 2015 kl. 20.02 skrev Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com>:
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>> On rereading M&D, it now strikes me that TRP's written Mason as something of a synaesthetic gnostic visionary, whose vocational love of astronomy stems not from a love of cartography and a desire for rational order, but from a deep rooted longing to experience this world - and the world's beyond - in their full, unadulterated rich textures.
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>> On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Johnny Marr points to sheer beautiful writing beautifully:
>> "Savage flowers of the Indies, demurer Blooms of the British garden,
>> striped and tartans, foreign colours undream'd of in Newton's
>> prismatics, damasks with epic-length Oriental tales woven into them,
>> requiring hours of attentive gazing whilst the light at the window
>> went changing so as to reveal newer and deeper labyrinths of event,
>> Velvets whose grasp of incident light was so predatory and absolute
>> that one moved closer to compensate for what was not being reflected,
>> till it felt like being drawn, oneself, inside the unthinkable
>> countours of an invisible surface"
>> 
>> P on the richness of ....life? of the range of color life can be?
>> We've got color "undreamed of" by science...we've got Oriental
>> tales...labyrinths, depths, can remind of that early table in Chap
>> one......
>> 


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