December 10, 2006
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A First Class Degree
The Librarian"Like all men of the Library,
I have traveled in my youth."
-- Jorge Luis Borges,
The Library of Babel"Papá me mandó un artículo
de J. G. Ballard en el que
se refiere a cómo el lugar
de la muerte es central en
nuestra cultura contemporánea."-- Sonya Walger,
interview dated September 14
(Feast of the Triumph of the Cross),
Anno Domini 2006
Sonya Walger,
said to have been
born on D-Day,
the sixth of June,
in 1974Walger's father is, like Borges,
from Argentina.
She "studied English Literature
at Christ Church College, Oxford,
where she received
a First Class degree.... ""... un artículo de J. G. Ballard...."--
A Handful of Dust, by J. G. Ballard(The Guardian, March 20, 2006):
"...
The Atlantic wall was only part of a huge system of German
fortifications that included the Siegfried line, submarine pens and
huge flak towers that threatened the surrounding land like lines of
Teutonic knights. Almost all had survived the war and seemed to be
waiting for the next one, left behind by a race of warrior scientists
obsessed with geometry and death.Death was what the Atlantic wall and Siegfried line were all about....
...
modernism of the heroic period, from 1920 to 1939, is dead, and it died
first in the blockhouses of Utah beach and the Siegfried line...Modernism's
attempt to build a better world with the aid of science and technology
now seems almost heroic. Bertolt Brecht, no fan of modernism, remarked
that the mud, blood and carnage of the first world war trenches left
its survivors longing for a future that resembled a white-tiled
bathroom. Architects were in the vanguard of the new movement,
led by Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus design school. The old models were
thrown out. Function defined form, expressed in a pure geometry that the eye could easily grasp in its entirety."
"This is the garden of Apollo,
the field of Reason...."
-- John Outram, architect(Click on picture for details.)
-- The Left Hand of God, by Adolf HollRelated material:
