The building still squats there, a hulking monstrosity on East 15th Street near First Avenue, putting forth the musty stench of expired Bunsen burners, the residue of a century of chemistry experiments gone awry.
"It followed immediately after the sinking of the Titanic, which to me is its analogue...The catastrophic failure of each set the stage for a century of dramatic experiments with the relationships between humans and the worlds they make for themselves".
"Meanwhile," the anonymous author wrote, "Mr. DARWIN, as the fruit of a quarter of a century of patient observation and experiment, throws out, in a book whose title has by this time become familiar to the reading public, a series of arguments and inferences so revolutionary as, if established, to necessitate a radical reconstruction of the fundamental doctrines of natural history".
The work represented the culmination of centuries of experiments in the union of image and sound, and a new way to think about plot, or rather the absence of one.
(Octavio Paz wrote, "The Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments and defeats, have faith only in the Virgin of Guada-lupe and the National Lottery").
Although napalm was not invented until the 1940's or used extensively until the Vietnam War, Greek fire had similar properties as early as the seventh century A.D. Centuries of experiments with combustible sulfur, quicklime and naphtha led to the fabled incendiary weapon.
He performed so many experiments that he was able, at one "time to loose … at once near five centuries of Experiments of my own" (BP 9 28).
Speaking of her popular appeal, Mexican poet and Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz once said: "The Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments and defeats, have faith only in the Virgin of Guadalupe and the National Lottery".
By then Giuffre, who had taught at colleges for more than a quarter of a century and experimented with jazz world music fusions, was once again performing free jazz.
