Marcel Proust wrote one novel. It took a transformation from aristocrat to hermit, long nights in a cork-lined room (to drown out the bustling clamor of the Paris boulevards below), and more than ten years to write it. He called his opus, a tomb replete with half-page sentences and sinuous revelation

Aestheticist fiction, Anxiety, Excessive, Layered, Modernist literature, Neurotic, Overflowing, Perverse, Sensual

"Curiouser and curiouser!" was Alice's verdict on her adventures down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" (1865), a book that exposed the absurdity of adult conventions and manners above ground. Carroll (whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson) was a pathologically shy math

Fantastic, Fantasy, Layered, Mathematical, Quirky, Repetition, Surreal, Whimsical

There are two mutually exclusive opinions regarding jazz musician Ornette Coleman. By some he is considered a visionary genius, representing the "third spur" of the Modernist revolution -- "a shift in approach to melody and rhythm to match Coltrane's skyscraping harmonics and Cecil Taylor's introduct

Deconstructive, Formless, Free/avant-garde, Hard bop/post-bop, Layered, Polychromatic, Sprawling

Take one Manhattan loft, add four parts creativity, one part experience, two dashes of dilettantism, half a scoop of gumption, and a double shot of actual UNIX knowledge, and shake generously. Enjoy one i/o 360. Founded in 1994, i/o 360 grew rapidly to cover everything from business to creativ

Composed, Geometric, Layered, User interface