Word: labyrinth
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...OCTAVIO PAZ, 84, Mexico's prolific man of letters who plumbed the mythic depths of his country's psyche in more than 40 volumes of poems and essays; of undisclosed causes; in Mexico City. Using his hybrid heritage (part Spanish, part Indian) as his starting point, Paz wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude, considered the seminal book on the Mexican mind-set. His starkly haunting metaphors of apathy and isolation made enemies among his countrymen but moved readers and, eventually, won him the Nobel Prize...
Octavio Paz, the Nobel-prizewinning author who died last week, wrote a masterpiece years ago called The Labyrinth of Solitude. The book contained, among other things, a treatise on the dynamics of passionate love: "To realize itself, love must violate the rules of our world. It is scandalous and disorderly, a transgression committed by two stars that break out of their predestined orbits and rush together in the midst of space. The romantic conception of love, which implies a breaking away and a catastrophe, is the only one we know today because everything in our society prevents love from being...
...cell phones, many are constantly getting input and information. Most people have to behave like detectives in order to sift out the useful information from the useless. Similarly, the world of noir is a world of detectives, a world where mere information cannot help, where the world is a labyrinth and the city a maze. In increasingly urban, increasingly over-loaded lives, noir reflects the way that individuals are beginning to define themselves in an information culture...
...Each of us is sort of trapped in our own labyrinth," Holton, who is also Professor of History of Science Emeritus, says. "Physics or chemistry, for example, lawyers, business people are each in their own labyrinth. What I want them to do is what Daedalus did. He made himself some wings...
...fledgling journal, named after the Greek mythological hero who escaped from a labyrinth using a self-constructed pair of wings, had an even bigger obstacle to surmount. It had little money, no office and had to be housed in the Jefferson physics laboratories...