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1/ The Story of Civilization
Volume I. Our Oriental Heritage (1935)
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Can't stop thinking about this passage from MFK Fisher on potatoes:
βThey were almost evanescent, like the upper or lower cheeks of baroque cherubs.β
Madridβs Royal Collections Gallery, where even the children are dressed with a better sense of proportion than most grown men
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The Victorian critic and artistΒ John RuskinΒ believed all beauty comes from nature. Look closely at his painting of a Bleinheim Orange apple (1873), and you'll see how Ruskin's lighting and shadow animate and dramatise a simple object.
