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praise suited to the conventional and fashionably fragmented
outlook of his inamorata. For her box-office approach to reality,
he substituted another time-structure, and a different model of
perception. It is not unlike Hamlet’s “Look on this picture and
on that.” Instead of a quiet bourgeois translation of the
medieval love code into the language of the new middle-class
tradesman, why not a Byronic caper to the farther shores of
ideal love?
But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Here is the new lineal perspective that had come to
painting with Gutenberg, but that had not entered the verbal