For some reason, the nature and the growth of thought that are necessary for the elaboration of great stones, great histories, great myths — or even ordinary ones — have not seemed very attractive or challenging to most of us. (religion-online.org)
This book of prose poems — composed in Chinese and French — is written in the «genre» of Chinese imperial proclamations graven on great stone steles; it achieves a haunting grandeur at times, like Saint - John Perse's Anabasis in some ways, but more remote, sublime, and mysterious. (firstthings.com)
A giant clockwork model of the universe revolves slowly above a pool of water, and is protected by great stone figures that no doubt have official names, although I think of them as the Crumbly Creatures, because whenever you hit them with anything, they crumble. (rogerebert.com)