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The Ebony Tower

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by John Fowles

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Can anyone explain the meaning of the title?
Timothy Roessler It's explained in the novella: there's the ivory tower of academia, David's world. Intellectual and abstract. Then there's the "ebony tower" of the pa…moreIt's explained in the novella: there's the ivory tower of academia, David's world. Intellectual and abstract. Then there's the "ebony tower" of the painter Breasley's world -- instinctive, tied in with myth, and art -- the opposite of the ivory tower.(less)
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