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...Verger’s descriptions lingered with the dust motes, like flecks of gold in the shards of Roman light. He drew a picture of the baths from another time, when they were filled by 3,000 people....
...And then there is the looming presence of William Shakespeare....
...Art is a field alive with sun motes and glyphic rooks; depression is the severed ear.”...
...Instead it’s the little things like dust motes in the corner, or light on a table....
...Ruminative journeys into selfhood are fine, if you must but, in order to forget one’s pain one needs peril, tension, undetectable poisons, not dust-motes swirling in a beam of sunlight....
...James’s style — especially his “late” one — has often been parodied (most famously by Max Beerbohm in The Mote in the Middle Distance), but no one, as far as I know, has ever seriously tried to imitate it...
...Brilliant architects, like William Van Alen, designed great skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building, and others, like Le Corbusier, planned a world built at staggering heights....
...Ashley Mote, jailed for nine months for fraud, is back in Brussels “doing the job I was elected to do”, as he puts it....
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