Black Moutain College

I keep on stumbing across this place, and when you hear about a school, some place of extreme energy and ideas--the kind of William Carlos Williams and Josef Albers and Einstein and Rauschenberg --that 'shut its doors forever'--you can almost sigh with relief that it can remain frozen in mysterious greatness for all of time. But my my my, It sure looked swell

VICE MAGAZINE STUDENT GUIDE 2007

showin the kids the ropes on page 60

"They both smiled, standing there. They both felt a common hilarity, excited by the moving waves; and then by the swift cutting race of a sailing boat , which, having sliced a curve in the bay, stopped; shivered; let its sail drop down; and then, with a natural instinct to complete the picture, after this swift movement, both of them looked at the dunes far away, and instead of merriment felt come over them some sadness-because the thing was completed partly, and partly because distant views seem to outlas by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest."

from Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse