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Tag Archives: fourth dimension
Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz
What was it like to be THERE in 1851, when Moby-Dick was published? Or in 1913, when Swann’s Way came out? Or in 1922, when Ulysses crashed into our culture like a meteor and changed it forever? Or in 1955, when … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Reviews
Tagged Düren, ekphrasis, fourth dimension, German, German Peasants' War, golem, Hieronymus Bosch, Kabbalah, Michael Lentz, Schattenfroh, Thomas Müntzer, Werner Tübke
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The Troiacord (El Troiacord) by Miquel de Palol
This review is the culmination of a decade-long obsession. I first encountered the name of Miquel de Palol in a book on contemporary Spanish literature in which there wasn’t a word on The Troiacord, his major work. This reticence, as I … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Reviews
Tagged Catalan, dodecahedron, El Troiacord, fourth dimension, ludism, Miquel de Palol, Neoplatonism, Plato, Platonic solids, polyhedra, science fiction, Timaeus
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