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concentrating a tremendous magnetic energy upon the
enjoyment—almost as if these inanimate elements were
responsive to embraces and good to eat!—of the solid
substances of wood and stone, making these things
actually porous, you might say, to planetary desire. This
characteristic was kept in humorous and very positive
control; but that when so kept it is one of the chief
characteristics of a born architect I used to be always
finding out from my own brother, A. R. Powys, and his
ways with wood and stone.
What Powys says here of tactility and affinity for wood
and stone ties in with much said earlier about the audile-tactile
features of scholasticism and Gothic architecture. It is in this
tactile and audile, and ever so unliterary, mode that Rabelais
gets his naughty, “earthy” effects. Like James Joyce, another