The Tower of the Mirrors
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lee, Vernon) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Tower of the Mirrors: And Other Essays on the Spirit of Places I hate always been fond of that story of Virgil, when he had turned wizard in the Middle Ages: how he built for himself a tower - whose name survives in a church at Rome - with mirrors whereby you could see whatever happened in the world´s length and breadth. This Tower of the Mirrors I have at last seen with my mortal eyes. It was a gusty day, with squalls of rain rushing down the Forth, and flashes of blue sky. You go up endless corkscrew steps into a little round room, windowless and with closed-down hatches; your impression of being in some part of an old-fashioned ship carried out by the blows of wind overhead. There is just space to squeeze in the dark between the rough stone wall and a great flat disc, like a circular dining-table, which takes up the whole cabin. And into this disc you look, and, very soon, look with the intentness of a crystal-gazer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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