ountain-side waiting that rising star whose slender ray will atits appointed time pierce the rocky and colonnaded corridor, torest deep in the mountain on the smiling face of its god. All elsesinks into insignificance compared with this pervading spirit ofgrandeur. Hieroglyphs and symbolism run… … etic. But to return to the numberof grand Egyptian conceptions, alldifferent expressions of grandeur.Take the wide-based pyramid, con-tracting high up against the blue toa single atom, and all its sides lit bythe sun. Or the Sphinx, her charmgradually growing on you like thedawn she seems waiting…
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Painters
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