Her career has had a strange imperishability without ever really ripening.
The imperishability of mathematics and the immortality of Carroll's Alice both arise from the same source, the universal and eternal imagination of humanity.
At Taylor's funeral two years ago Farrell read the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo, a hymn to the fragility and imperishability of youth and beauty which Burton himself once dazzlingly recorded.
Yet if historically removed settings generally offer a greater chance of imperishability, an intriguing exception – at least in London – was Willy Russell's Blood Brothers, which lasted for 29 years and more than 10,000 performances in the West End.
Meanwhile, given the reportedly fragile state of Kim's health, and the recent anointment of Kim Jong-un as the il's heir apparent, the theme of the imperishability of North Korean socialism is very timely.
Now that I am about to put on imperishability, mere existence seems the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
Drawing on the 15th chapter of the Apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, the archbishop wrote, "The flesh he assumed in the incarnation, although sinless, was like our own, susceptible to death; the flesh that he raised in his three-day resurrection is splendid and powerful, for he graced the perishable with imperishability and the corruptible with incorruption".
The fallen chimney, crumbling walls, toppled Doric columns, headless caryatids, monoliths undermined and tumbled by burrowing worms, cows grazing and weeds growing in spaces where once-important people proclaimed the imperishability of their presumptions -- all these evidences of entropy versus architecture are potently evocative, and the evocations are by no means entirely negative.
He quotes dead ones, and because the written word is as close as we get to imperishability, they are just as alive.
