Gothic Archway Into a Service Area of the U of C’s Hospital Complex.
[In the previous two pages, the Narrator put closure on Phaedrus’s last days at U. Chicago and what is happened with his University of Illinois, Rhetoric classed at the Navy Pier. We are told how Phaedrus gets less and less sleep. His mind gets slower and slower.] “The city closes in on him now, and in his strange perspective it becomes the antithesis of what he believes. The citadel not of Quality, the citadel of form and substance. Substance in the form of steel sheets and girders, substance in the form of concrete piers and roads, in the form of brick, of asphalt, of auto parts, old radios, and rails, dead carcasses of animals that once grazed the prairies. Form and substance without Quality. That is the soul of this place. Blind, huge, sinister and inhuman: seen by the light of fire flaring upward in the night from the blast furnaces in the south, through heavy coal smoke deeper and denser into …. “(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. As mentioned in an earlier caption (photo 0081), these ribbed and vaulted high-gothic arches declare the Medieval Church Academic Origins of The University of Chicago! Above this arch are the Sheltered Platforms for the Saints, shown previously.
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