[1] From: "Randall L. Jones" <Randall_Jones@byu.edu> (3)
Subject: Re: 10.0856 Detail, but still no solution
[2] From: "trunk@usa1.com" <trunk@usa1.com> (8)
Subject: details
[3] From: Sally M Roberts <sroberts@merle.acns.nwu.edu> (44)
Subject: Re: 10.0856 Detail, but still no solution
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:36:23 -0700 (MST)
From: "Randall L. Jones" <Randall_Jones@byu.edu>
Subject: Re: 10.0856 Detail, but still no solution
It probably wasn't Goethe, at least it's not in the Hamburger
Ausgabe.
Randall Jones
Brigham Young University
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:47:57 +0000
From: "trunk@usa1.com" <trunk@usa1.com>
Subject: details
The latest edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations recognizes "God
is in the details" as a favorite aphorism of Mies van der Rohe and
the art historian Aby Warburg. The origin, however, is unknown
although it has been attributed to Flaubert (Le bon Dieu est dans le
detail) but without verification.
John Dorenkamp
trunk@usa1.com
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:17:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sally M Roberts <sroberts@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
Subject: Re: 10.0856 Detail, but still no solution
Bartlett's FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS says:
""God is in the details': A popular aphorism with the architect Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe and the art historian Aby Warburg; attributed [Le bon Dieu est
dan le detail] to Gustave Flaubert but without verification."
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 856.
> Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers)
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/
>
> [1] From: Matthew Hansen <matthew.hansen@university- (14)
> college.oxford.ac.uk>
> >
>
> > Late on a Sunday night, in an empty house, the mind drifts after hours
> > of trying to explain why I've tagged one word this way, another that way.
> > End with a query: was it Mies van der Rohe who said, "Der lieber Gott lebt
> > im Detail", and if so, where?
> >
>
> My memory says it's Goethe, but I couldn't tell you where....
>
> Thanks for the musings. Good nutrients for the grey matter.
>
> Yours,
>
> Matt
>
> -------------------------------------
> Matthew C. Hansen
> University College - Oxford
> Oxford OX1 4BH
>
> e-mail: matthew.hansen@university-college.oxford.ac.uk
>
>
>
>
-- Sally M. Roberts Curriculum Integration Librarian Reference Department Northwestern University Library Evanston, IL 60208-2300 sroberts@nwu.edu 847-491-2168