^Il Bagno Blu in D'annunzio 's Vittoriale . An extreme illustration of the points below. Two extracts from the collection of ...

^Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends Two extracts relating to the City ( polis ) from Ha...

RELICS by Marcel Proust "I have bought up all of her belongings that were put on sale -that woman whose friend I would like to have b...

^annotation in personal copy of LOG21 by blog author “ This is not something I am dogmatically imposing, I’m just observing that I, my fr...

^drawing of Wonderwall, New Orleans, 1982-1984 (dismantled) Extract from Charles W Moore's essay "The Yin, The Yang, and The Three...

Over the past decade I’ve been living around more than my fair share of large construction sites, and I’ve enjoyed their cranes' sudden...

The Three Graces By Peter Paul Rubens, Museo Del Prado Madrid Click here for the previous extract "The Lasciviousness of Delivery...

A tract taken from an early chapter in Michel Tournier’s “Gemini”, in which the main character, the owner of a refuse disposal company ...

I recently mentioned Flaubert's violently exotic novel Salammbo , about the Mercenary revolt in Carthage after the First Punic War , i...

Pieter Janssens Elinga, Room in A Dutch House. The Hermitage Museum. This is the point in the book “ Zeno of Bruges ” (or “The Abyss”) by ...

Here are two spaces described in two of the three novels that make up Honore De Balzac’s ‘History of The Thirteen’ , books written at the ...