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irretrievable adjective dissipated, dissolved, given up, gone, hopelessly lost, inreparabilis, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreparable, lost, past recall, spent, unrecoverable, untraceable, vanished See also: irrecoverable, irredeemable, irremediable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Beginning around 1980 and continuing to the present, there has been a steady increase in the mass, variety, and eccentricity of his art's visible manifestations, progressing hand in hand with an increasing acceptance of the irretrievability and subjective nature of background systems, and a journey to the wilder shores of drawing. Nostalgically, the Calender's inhabitants imagine building immortality in exclusively Virgilian terms, and while the apparent irretrievability of the past frustrates them, Spenser answers their ambivalence in a surprising way: by offering two visions of Rome's ruin. If our bafflement in the face of the simultaneous irretrievability and omnipresence of time past and time present is childlike, then this book is childlike. |
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