Chapter Three. The Frosts of Death

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table Of Contents vii
3. A Note on Sources. Permissions ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Part One. Strange Chords: Masterful Geometries
7. Introduction. A Travel Diary Toward Nothing But a Dream: Shadowy Types for Concluding Images and 'The Excavations of Silence" 3
8. Chapter One. Strange Chords of Incipient Orthodoxy: Centres and Epicycles 29
9. Chapter Two. Central Men and Awful Lines: Attempts and Failures in Mastery 60
10. Chapter Three. The Frosts of Death 85
11. Chapter Four. Vacancies, Kindly and Deadly: Sweet Transitions and Jarring Thoughts 105
12. Chapter Five. Circumferential Considerations: Lines without Beginnings or Endings 127
13. Part Two. Lucent Verdure and Asymmetrical Decompositions
14. Chapter Six. Labyrinths of Presence, Labyrinths of Absence: Initial Experiences of the Superimposition of Contrasting Designs 159
15. Chapter Seven. Capricious Sinuousities: Venice and the City as Mind 198
16. Chapter Eight. The Excavations of Silence: Double Labyrinths and the Architecture of Reluctant Nihilism 222
17. Appendices 275