WATER & THE WORLDSOUL
LARGO DESOLATO
ADVANCE PRAISE - "Pleasantly deranged ... Mind-numbing ... Reminiscent of a Hitchcock film ... Ingeniously constructed and written in Benjaminian, acidic, scorching prose with traces of Schwitteresque neo-post-Dada nonsense. The storm of crypto-cultural references is consummated by a pathetic, Shakespearean denouement." --Committee for the Elimination of Landscape Architecture
EMBLEM 1 - "Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of storytelling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning."(1) --Arundhati RoyEMBLEM 2 - "For Aquinas, the intellect cannot know sensible particulars, and it is only after the abstraction, in the reflexio ad phantasmata, that it comes to know sense objects. The human intellect is discursive. So also is the aesthetic visio; it is a composite act, a complex apprehension of the object. Sensible intuition may put us in touch with some feature of a particular object, but the complex of concomitant conditions which determine the object, its position in space and time, its very existence, are not intuited. They demand rather the discursive process of the act of judgment. For Aquinas, aesthetic knowledge has the same kind of complexity as intellectual knowledge, because it has the same object, namely, the substantial reality of something informed by an entelechy."(2) --Umberto Eco
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