Welcome to 2010 ! This "first past the post" blog of the New Year continues the "Lessons of Literary Constructions" theme that I began last December, which already seems a long time ago.Maybe the stratospheric aspirations of the world's tallest building officially opened today - the 818m Burj Dubai whose spatial dimensions are shown here - have speeded up the temporal realm, or perhaps not.
For history, in the person of Scottish poet David Lyndsay writing of the Tower of Babel in 1555, tells us in "The Monarche" :
The shadow of that hyddeous strength
Sax myle and more it is of length.
These lines give the name "That Hideous Strength" to the third book of C S Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy, mentioned in my previous post.
Co-incidentally, I am now reading another book by A S Byatt called "Babel Tower" : a truly Jungian synchronicity !
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