Texas Sculpture Garden,
Frisco, Texas
Gunner Theel American (New York)
Right Angles (#23)
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents’ beds, unerringly I rush! Naught’s an obstacle, naught’s an angle to the iron way!
—-Melville, Moby Dick
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
—-Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
—-John Dryden
Bill Chance 