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Above the crossbeam sits the figure of THE THINKER, the man who sees
the full magnitude and the entire horror of the spectacle, because he
thinks. He sits forton and mute, heavy with images and ideas, and all
his strength (the strength of a man of action) thinks. His entire
body has turned into a skull and all the blood in his veins into
brains ...
Rainer Maria Rilke, on Auguste Rodin's GATE OF HELL
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Friday, 14 November 1997, 00:00:00 GMT
David Noelle /
noelle@acm.org