A free Cornetto with every edition of Wallace Stevens' Harmonium? Vouchers for eyebrow-threading with Tess of the D'Urbervilles? Or perhaps a bucket and spade with copies of the script for Beckett's Happy Days.
But I'm sure you can do better. Come on folks, let's blue-sky this baby.
April 16, 1855.—I realized this morning the prodigious effect of climate on one's state of mind. I was Italian or Spanish. In this blue and limpid air, and under this southern sun, the very walls smile at you.
April 5, 1864.—I have been reading "Prince Vitale" for the second time, and have been lost in admiration of it. What wealth of color, facts, ideas—what learning, what fine-edged satire, what esprit, science, and talent, and what an irreproachable finish of style—so limpid, and yet so profound! I
The Angel in the Architecture
By ROBERTA SMITH
A sleek Kandinsky retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum offers an unencumbered view of his painting career.
limpid purity
In another picture, this one from the Uffizi, of a man with a modified Afro and a leopard-skin collar, the only structural feature is a narrow strip of stone ledge; it could be a windowsill, or the top of a garden wall. Then, in a portrait tentatively identified as that of the Venetian humanist Bernardo Bembo, we're outdoors, unencumbered by architecture, looking at a plein-air paradise of palm trees, swans and limpid clouds.
「昔之得一者：天得一以清，地得一以寧，神得一以靈，谷得一以盈，萬物得一以生，神無以靈，將恐歇；谷無以盈，將恐竭
Waley
As for the things that from of old have understood the Whole ---
The Sky through such understanding remains limpid,
Earth remains steady,
The spirits keep their holiness,
The abyss is replenished,
The ten thousand creatures bear their kind,
Barons and princes direct their people.
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As for the things that from of old have understood the Whole ---
The Sky through such understanding remains limpid,
Earth remains steady,
The spirits keep their holiness,
The abyss is replenished,
The ten thousand creatures bear their kind,
Barons and princes direct their people.
Definition of encumber in English:
VERB
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'cause trouble to, entangle'; formerly also as incumber): from Old French encombrer'block up', from en- 'in' + combre 'river barrage'.
unencumbered
Pronunciation: /ʌnɪnˈkʌmbəd, -ɛn-/
Definition of unencumbered
adjective
IN BRIEF: adj. - Not burdened or hampered.
limpid Show phonetics
adjective ━━ a. 澄んだ, 透明な; 明晰な（文体）.
1 LITERARY clear and transparent:
a limpid pool
2 clearly expressed and easily understood:
limpid prose
limpidly Show phonetics
adverb
blue-sky
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(also blue-skies)
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