A TALE OF TWO FEATHERS. AN INTERVIEW TO D. GRAHAME SHANE

sually, when journalists or writers make a frame for a well-known and relevant person in the context of contemporary culture, they cast him with the best comparative peers, to calibrate his significance. A sharp reader can remember how, in one of the many compilation books on his interviews, the prologist compares Foucault with Diogenes, to argue that the utility of philosophy was, for the great doxograph, to be prepared and prepare to every eventuality. As the Greek supports, so the French maintains, we could say. And, in the wild encounter after the comparison, there are no words to express the admiration for the audacity, for the focused person who finally acquired new wings to fly higher. In this way, interrogated himself in the retirement tribute lecture after five decades teaching, Colin Rowe used masterfully a Giambattista Tiepolo’s picture with tumbled angels out from the frame to express his vertigo towards the heights (trying to climb to the great knowledge) inducing him to fall, as a Modern Icarus. Joan Ockman was the one who told us the story, now history, and in addition to more peers, as James Stirling, Alvin Boyarsky, Fred Koetter and many others.