Works of our own art we are not

Venus, Saturn, psycho-cosmos

“But do you know, professor, what my most vivid memory of all that is? It was at one of the lectures you gave during the winter semester of 1912. You’d gone over and explain to us one of your cases a couple of times, taking it layer by layer back to the beginning, and then finally, effortlessly, presenting it intact, all of a piece, like a cake turned o…