The centerpiece of the program, though, was "De Profundis" (1992), his half-hour setting of vivid excerpts from Oscar Wilde prison correspondence.
Top state officials go to church wearing the correct facial expression, but they lie, and in doing so they sin more than we ever did," Ms Tolokonnikova declaimed.Prison correspondence provides a vivid picture of the continuing awfulness of the Russian penal system, with its slave labour and dire conditions.
The researchers hope to offer Fred the "self-efficacy and quality of life" that come with religious experience without the baggage of belief, but the idea that such vivid feelings have no real correspondence to the objective world winds up bringing him something more like existential despair.
Covering the period from 1950, the beginning of Updike's freshman year at college, to 1967, when he was a prizewinning and best-selling novelist, this correspondence, almost always typed, provides a vivid journal of Updike's progress from farm boy to worldly sophisticate and from apprentice writer to serious artist.
Pasquier's correspondence, which was published in 1619, provides a vivid commentary on the political and military aspects of the Wars of Religion (1562 98) and contains discussions of historical and literary problems.
Cara Benedetto's debut solo show at Taxter and Spengemann, "Breaking Waves (How Fake Stakes Ate the Cake)," hard-core in every sense of the phrase, is a puzzling and provocative accumulation of imagined correspondences written and signed by a cast of vivid, often angry authors to the people who have done them right and wrong in life.
Dante created a remarkable repertoire of types in a work of vivid mimetic presentations, as well as a poem of great stylistic artistry in its prefigurations and correspondences.
Those memories remain vivid.
