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Torquing Torus

It very rare for Richard Serra
man of steel, to sculpt in error.
The shapes that he creates evoke
dunes, canyons and ravines. Baroque
the influence of all these curves.
Perhaps Borromini deserves
some credit for the inspiration
for their expressive undulation,
although, ingratiating, lavish,
his expertise inclines to ravish
as, torquing torus with inversion,
with parasexual perversion
it transforms alchemistically steel
into raw spaces where you feel
the presence of a dying numen
within the crevasse of the lumen
where people walk and need not climb
to sense a terror that’s sublime.

Michael Kimmelman reviews a retrospective exhibition of Richard Serra of sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, “Man of Steel, ” NYT, June 1,2007) :

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poem by Gershon Hepner
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The Child Is Gone

Darling, give me your absence tonight
Take the shade from the canvas and leave me the white
Let me sink in the silence that echoes inside
And dont bother leaving the light on
cuz I suddenly feel like a different person
From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion
And I ran my hand oer a strange inversion
A vacancy that just did not belong
The child is gone
Honey help me out of this mess
Im a stranger to myself
But dont reach for me, Im too far away
I dont wanna talk cuz theres nothing left to say
So my
Darling, give me your absence tonight
Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside
cuz theres no kind of loving that can make this all right
Im trying to find a place I belong
And I suddenly feel like a different person
From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion

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song performed by Fiona Apple
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The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

quote by Joel Hodgson
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The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

quote by Blaise Pascal
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

quote by Blaise Pascal
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

quote by Irving Babbitt
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For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

quote by Wilhelm Ostwald
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Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.

quote by Wilhelm Ostwald
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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

quote by Ayn Rand
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Empathetic Outcast Artist, The

for Mary

A doughty dauntless face
emerges [seemingly]
out of nowhere;
her words artfully executed,
mocking a tedious vanity

issuing a prolonged malcontentment

That disrupts the inner workings
of a balanced, unbiased society—
promoting
an innate disparity, an inversion of irony

borrowing from the world:
inessential partiality.

poem by S./j. Goldner
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