Re: flying Stars

[AKress1948@domain.elided]

Well, I accede to John's longer experience in interpretating these things.  
to tell the truth, i reread the chapter last night, and I'm still not sure!!  
It is clear that it was translated from the usual romantic, formal, stilted 
italian, or at the least, written in romantic, formal,and stilted english.  
It isn't very linear, and the authors' main concern is tracing the aesthetic 
inspiration and flow of design trends, not body counts.  Consequently, there 
is a lot of flash backs & forwards in each sentence - all shrouded in floral 
verbosity.  I came to my "conclusions" by interpolating the text with the 
photo captions (which sometimes are more specific and contain more useful 
info).
In any case, not too many of them were built, which is sort of surprising 
considering how good looking it is, what a splash the thing made.  I suppose 
it is somewhat like haute couture? clients not wishing to be seen at an event 
wearing identical dresses.
Andy

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