In its lower stories, the chapter house is much simpler in detail than the church, leading nineteenth-century archaeologues to attribute it to the Romanesque, or “Norman,” period.

While that seems unlikely any time soon, such experiences of terror and embattlement have shaped the way Mr. Maliki governs.

There, in that pale region, beneath that essential cover, the twin incompatibility of an œuvre and madness is unveiled; it is the blind spot of each one's possibility, and of their mutual exclusion.

The path of totality can extend for many thousands of miles, and the duration of totality in any one place can be as long as about seven minutes.