My God. It's Vivisection in the Drawing Room!

4.21.2010

CONSIDER: Orbital Romance

As it happens, NASA spacecraft and German Romanticsm follow remarkably similar trajectories:

One image has the Times tracing the route of the Cassini spacecraft, now circling Saturn, while the other arrives from Marianne Thalmann's Literary Sign Language of German Romanticism, and claims to depict E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 novelette "The Nutcracker and Mouse King."

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