Expanding on the ecology of the earth veil Ruskin depicts it variously as ‘a carpet’, as ‘a fantasy of embroidery’ of ‘tall spreading of foliage’ with the ‘unerring uprightness as of temple pillars’ all cleaving to the underlying strength of rock or transient sand.

Following his acknowledged ‘master’ Ruskin, William Morris writes in News from Nowhere (1892) of ‘the spirit of the new days, of our days’ as a ‘delight in the life of the world intense and overweening love of the very skin and surface of the earth, on which man dwells, such as a lover has in the fair flesh of the woman he loves’. And Ruskin opens his fifth volume of Modern Painters (1860) with this preeminent surface, ‘The Earth-Veil’: ‘The earth in its depths must remain dead and cold, incapable except of slow crystalline change but at its surface, which human beings look upon and deal with, it ministers to them through a veil of strange intermediate being’. Montgomery and Berkeley join a cast that also includes Fringe alum Seth Gabel.Įditor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that Berkeley will not recur but instead be a series regular.For John Ruskin, the first surface of Venice-his amphibious ‘sea-dog of towns’-was naturally not that of architecture itself, but the protean ‘salt-smelling skin’ of the sandy earth whereupon it arose. Berkeley is repped by Affirmative Entertainment and Stone Meyer. Most recently, she filmed the ABC pilot Gothica, where she portrayed Grace Van Helsing in the high-concept monster drama. Her credits include features Our Idiot Brother and Black Swan. Mongtomery is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and Morris Yorn. Salem will premiere on WGN America in spring 2014. Braga and Simon executive produce alongside Prospect Park’s Josh Barry and Jeff Kwatinetz. The drama hails from Fox 21 ( Homeland, Sons of Anarchy). The politician is a company man who believes in pomp and circumstance.īrannon Braga ( 24, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Terra Nova) created and penned the series alongside Adam Simon ( The Haunting in Connecticut). She’s formerly the girlfriend of the young John Alden, who left to go to war 10 years ago.Īdditionally, Xander Berkeley ( Nikita, The Mentalist) has joined the cast in a series regular role as Magistrate Hale, who is described as one of the Selectmen of Salem. She’s ruthless and vulnerable at the same time and the wife of the ancient, ailing but wealthy George Sibley, who is one of the Salem town Selectmen. Mary is described as beautiful, radiating confidence and power with a hidden sexuality. STORY: Brannon Braga’s Salem Witch Trials Drama Ordered to Series at WGN America

Beyond the Veil by Janet E. Morris