The strange city was full of music and sculpture and painting and performance and recriminations and fallings-out and drama and scandal, because the Rake were at that time in the process of inventing all the arts. There were so many, so manymany, that there was always room for more, so each of them would create new forms and vie to become their first masters, or for those who came a smidgen later, their first iconoclasts. The Rake were protectors of time, and for them art was the way to organize time: to guide and direct it; to channel its wild fecundity into a linear flow that did not burst
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