Great paradoxes are those that stop, startle, and gain intuitive acceptance well before essential understanding. Take, for instance, the maxim that “the first principle of all action is leisure.” It is something W. C. Fields might have said as easily as Aristotle, the kind of line you take in with a wry smile when you see it in the newspaper or on a sign at your neighborhoo (...)
February 23, 2007
Books
Still Life & Matisse
Blue ArabesqueA Search for the SublimePatricia HamplHarcourt, $22, 224 pp.
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