 | Hermann Weyl - 1952 - 180 páginas
...unthinkable differentiation of one and the same basic scheme, the equilateral, equiangled hexagon. Yet each in itself — this was the uncanny, the antiorganic,...antiquity purposely and secretly introduced minute varia4 I quote Helen Lowe-Porter's translation, Knopf, New York, 1927 and 1939. 64 tion from absolute... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 páginas
...find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. The Magic Mountain 1927 (London: Seeker) 39 Yet each in itself— this was the uncanny, the antiorganic,...antiquity purposely and secretly introduced minute variations from absolute symmetry in their columnar structures. [On snowflakes] The Magic Mountain... | |
 | Mitchell G. Ash, Alfons Söllner - 1996 - 324 páginas
...irreconcilable tension between order and chance by quoting the following passage: Yet each [snow crystal] in itself- this was the uncanny, the antiorganic,...variation from absolute symmetry in their columnar structures.93 This scene from Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1924) is a portent symbol for the world... | |
 | Malcolm Lowry - 1996 - 436 páginas
...regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree—the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death—" (480). The "Snow" chapter is also excerpted in Clifton Fadiman's Reading I've Liked; see note IV.39.... | |
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Yet each, in itself — this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all — each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree —... 