Mr. Goldsmith said he designed a "heavenly" tattoo for Mr. Valvona: the twin towers wrapped in a "war-torn" American flag and resting on heavenly clouds emitting sunbeams.
Now, I press my nose against the window of the Dux bed showroom in Red Bank, and wander the aisles of department stores where heavenly clouds of duvets hover in their sateen-covered glory.
But at the end, when the remorseful Guilhen dies in Fervaal's arms, the chorus breaks into a hymn, "Pange lingua"; Christianity beckons; and Fervaal disappears into heavenly clouds.
The ruyi is a talisman of ancient origin associated in art with heavenly clouds.
Medardus' fascinating portrayal of the old and the new (pictured above), is an intriguing composition of rocketeers blasting through space and in and around heavenly clouds occupied by Baroque-looking semi-clad figures, some with wings attached.
Traces of the crater can still be seen in the Charlevoix region of the Ebouillement and locals feel that a little bit of heaven was left behind, particularly in Malbaie, a nearby summer resort where mist rising from the river creates what appears to be an actual "city in heavenly clouds".
It's a heavenly, billowy cloud of ewes' milk mousse, with blood orange semi-dried and in a jelly, with a dollop of fennel sorbet.
"We begin in the clouds with heavenly light rays and travel downward past the watchful gargoyles to find the ultimate desecration of the garbage island," he says.
One does not expect a thick cloud of mysterious, heavenly glory to descend and fill Mather House, or Cabot, or Currier, or Eliot - which is what happens in the Tabernacle, according to the scriptural verses we read this week, as God becomes manifest in the heart of the Israelite camp - but I will venture to say that something somewhat of that ilk does happen in the atmosphere of Housing Day.
