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Ascending to the Cathedral, Barcelona (1938\/1960) by Kati Horna<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 The rise and fall of Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong\u2019s infamous urban monolith<\/a>. Related: a four-and-a-half-hour walkthrough of Stray<\/em><\/a>, a game in which you help a cat escape from a deteriorated robot-filled housing complex.<\/p>\n \u2022 Quote of the week: “The true master requires the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.\u201d Thus Vladimir Nabokov at Lawrence Weschler’s Wondercabinet<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Orion Nebula<\/em><\/a> by Christian Wittman, and\u00a0Chthonic<\/em><\/a> by Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci.<\/p>\n Chapter by chapter, Flaubert lampoons his poor pair, who fail at discipline after attempted discipline: landscape architecture, anatomy, history, literature, phrenology, religion, even love, and on and on. In each pursuit, they never lose the optimism or the hubris of thinking they can put their knowledge to work in the world. When they become interested in pedagogy, they adopt a pair of abandoned children who are at turns mystified by and contemptuous of their efforts to improve their well-being. 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