(Continued from 2 PM ET Tuesday)
“… the object sets up a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
— Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies of Modernism,"
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477)
"The absolute consonance is a state of chromatic plenitude."
"… the nearest precedent might be found in Becky Sharp .
The opening of the Duchess of Richmond's ball,
with its organization of strong contrasts and
display of chromatic plenitude, presents a schema…."
— Scott Higgins, Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow:
Color Design in The 1930s , University of Texas Press,
2007, page 142
Note the pattern on the dance floor.
(Click for wider image.)
"At the still point…" — Four Quartets