With equal parts humor and horror, this riveting memoir by a master storyteller explores the question, how can a young man
alchemically transform war into peace, hatred into healing, and anger into acceptance, even love?
In his preface, John Wieners begins by commenting on the title, saying that "the title is wrong;
alchemically it is right; but the essence of purpose is not downward.
In an interview conducted by a local newspaper, Paul admitted that "at a certain point, my severe nostalgia for my musical archeology ended up
alchemically contaminating my ongoing Odyssey through the unmarked forests of ancient and modern books.
Artist James Ciosek
alchemically reproduces this tendency of nature in his paintings, using a self-bifurcating mix of powdered pigment, paint, and glue on panel.
In the Sydney Taylor Honor Book, The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke, those balloons are
alchemically powered transports carrying "Passengers," assisted by escort "Runners," over the wall to freedom.
Arroyo's "Solar Constant" poems
alchemically combine astronomical observation; Platonic and Aristotelian debates about constancy and change, eternity and temporality; geocentric versus heliocentric models of our solar system; Kepler's celestial physics of the birth and death of stars that undermined the doctrine of the immutability of the heavens accepted since the Greeks; Galileo's study of sunspots that earned him the wrath of the Inquisition; Newton's experiments with optics that split white light into its constituent colors; Einstein's General Theory of Relativity about gravity as a curved field created by the presence of mass; and Edwin Hubble's telescope, which has provided evidence of an expanding universe of both visible and invisible matter and energy.
Occasionally, if you are willing to negotiate the perils, you arrive strong, brighter of spirit, to a place that sprouts yams and bolls of cotton at your footfall." Derek, on the other hand, fixed his sights on revivifying the language of his native land in the process of re-imaging an Odysseus-mode journey that resulted in his epic poem, Omeros, a freshly authenticated articulation--as opposed to mimicry--that
alchemically transforms the familiar Homeric plot into a Caribbean point of view that elicits new illumination on the aspirations and realities of the islanders, prompting Hilton Als, writing in a 2004 issue of The New Yorker, to recognize the achievement as a "masterpiece" that is "the perfect marriage of Walcott s classicism and his nativism."
This paper is an analysis of how these opposing and conflicting tendencies, psychologically and
alchemically, are resulting in a wholeness through the symbolic cluster of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
Gold as the purest,
alchemically most difficult to obtain metal symbolized virtue, and a successful transmutation of gold indicated the virtue and purity of the alchemist.
Out of either necessity or verve, Segers reverses the expected product of replicative media--similarity--to produce
alchemically unique things.
States Hall, "If you brew your coffee with precise intent, you can
alchemically transmute those common grounds into a veritable elixir."
Consider this: a single tap from French brand THG's Baccarat Crystal collection (it features a red Baccarat crystal obtained
alchemically by adding gold to special elements at specific temperature) costs Rs 24 lakh.