![]() I studied dozens of books and, eventually, created elaborate rubber molds from which I could cast the forty-six columns of the peristyle and other architectural elements. After making my first model of it for a class project when I was about twelve, using cardboard toilet paper rolls to stand in for the original’s elegantly fluted Doric columns, I embarked on creating a proper scale model, three feet wide by six feet long, the ambitiousness of which now strikes me as almost absurd and the construction of which was never completed, although it absorbed the next five years of my life. Of these, the Parthenon was the object of an almost obsessive interest. I was a fervent model-maker in my early teenage years, often devoting all of my after-school time to making intricate reproductions of buildings from antiquity. ![]() The difficulty of representing the past accurately-even if that past is itself a dream, a reconstruction of a reconstruction, a palimpsest of a palimpsest-is one known to people other than writers, of course. ![]()
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