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In the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin a golden light hangs in the distant sky and a cool shady atmosphere pervades the palatial chamber; below is a densely packed town on the shores of a shining river, an archetypally Flemish scene of everyday life witnessed by two little men looking over a parapet.
She adds: "There is something about the whole idea of a walled garden: it's a sort of safe place, archetypally English; a sanctuary.
Of all Johns's subjects, these isolated integers are perhaps the most archetypally powerful: Hovering revenants from the dawn of abstract thought, translingual and transnational, these numerals basic to all the systems that make our civilization possible are also utterly prosaic, a part of the earliest imprinting by which an individual undergoes socialization.
 
 
 
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