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Sea Shells CL
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Paul Valery, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Henri Mondor (Illustrator)
This is the question posed by the French poet-philosopher Paul Valery in his engaging meditation on the aesthetics of the seashell. As any beachcomber will attest, seashells are an endless source of fascination and delight, and Valery's 1936 essay glows, as Gaston Bachelard says, with his sense of nature's "transcendental geometry". Wondering at ...
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