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Friday September 21, 2007
Word and Object
"We may recall the ideal of 'dryness' which we associate with the symbolist movement, with writers such as T. E. Hulme and T. S. Eliot, with Paul Valery, with Wittgenstein. This 'dryness' (smallness, clearness, self-containedness) is a nemesis of Romanticism…. The temptation of art… is to console. The modern writer… attempts to console us by myths or by stories."
— Iris Murdoch
"The consolations of form,
the clean crystalline work"
— Iris Murdoch,
"Against Dryness"
"As a teacher Quine
was carefully organized,
precise, and conscientious,
but somewhat dry
in his classroom style."
Word:
Object:
Myth and Story:
The five entries ending
on Jan. 27, 2007
"There is such a thing
as a tesseract."
— Madeleine L'Engle
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