More than half a century later, Pound's 86-year-old daughter still savours the isolation of Brunnenburg castle's lofty wood-panelled and book-lined rooms, where she reads the poem to visitors and mulls over her extraordinary upbringing by the renegade US poet.
She works with metal and wood, "hard, lofty boys' material", which she describes as "unforgiving" and also with clay which is "relaxing and yielding" – more feminine and spontaneous.
Other successes are animations by the Americans Kara Walker (horrors of the Old South) and Joshua Mosley (clay figures of Pascal and Rousseau sharing lofty thoughts in real woods) and by the young Japanese master Ayako Tabata, who calls herself Tabaimo (big hands furnish a Victorian doll house that develops symptoms of organic distress, including erupting sea creatures).
The setting for the grubby rehearsal hall, designed by Jason Simms, is a lofty space with brick walls, wood planking and a battered tin ceiling that becomes darkly intimate through Thom Weaver's lighting.
Sailing past the unpopulated Three Brothers in 1771, Captain J.M.C. du Roslan reported that they were 'covered with very lofty cocoa-trees and other wood of inferior height' (quoted in Scott 1961: 69), an observation corroborated after a visit in 1786 by the hydrographer Archibald Blair, who reported that two of the Three Brothers were 'abounding with Coconut Trees' (Blair 1788: 17).
The ward seemed so big with lofty ceilings, huge long windows, and dark wood parquet floors.
Was this a lofty meeting of the minds at some wood-paneled OSU conference office, say, or born over late-night beers and whiskey at some dive bar hard past a comic-con motel?
Among such questions are also loftier Larry David inquiries: Is it effective if the wood you knock on is faux?
Breakfast is served in the lofty kitchen, with three skylights and a wall of wood-framed glass overlooking the garden, a work in progress..
Theatrical décor of dark wood, baize and brick lends coziness to the lofty, two-level dining room.
Along the way, the couple have amassed treasure for their cabin in the woods (all made from recycled wood, of course) that keeps expanding with larger, loftier additions.
