For what we believe to be love, our jealousy, is not one single passion, continuous, indivisible. They are composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, which are ephemeral but by their uninterrupted multitude give the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.
On rising to my feet, and peering across the green glow of the Desert, I perceived that the monument against which I had slept was but one of thousands. Before me stretched long parallel avenues, clear to the for horizon of similar broad, low pillars.
Eric Temple Bell / John Taine, The Time Stream, 1946 (via smithson)
[As] mathematical order imposed upon stone, monumental productions [group] servile multitudes under their shadow, inspiring admiration and amazement, stasis and constraint.
Georges Bataille, "On Architecture," c. 1960 (via rosswolfe)