“An Eternal Dance”: Paul Claudel, Japan, and Thermodynamics

Abstract

all the workings of modern industry. These are not at all vast basins, slow deposits, long planetary foldings, big constructions, interminable slopes displayed by the great continents. It’s the work of a short and violent god, a place amidst the storm of stones and ash furiously brought forth by Izanagi in his search for Izanami. that a grand Pittsburgh or of construction