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Mark Zelyony asked this question about The Ebony Tower:
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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Mark Zelyony Thanks, Timothy. I guess I did not reflect on that line
Sep 13, 2021 06:56AM · flag
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The Ebony Tower
by John Fowles
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