When I was in Athens, it wasn't for tourism, so I took in the historical sights occasionally, and never actually made it up the Acropolis. Athen's air quality is often very poor. But the day I visited the Acropolis museum, the air was clear as crystal. The clarity was so unreal, so stunning, that I kept turning from the reconstructed Parthenon frieze to gaze out the windows over the city.
“back on my epistemology bullshit” YES. YES. THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT
All twelve of us, Phil
When I was in Athens, it wasn't for tourism, so I took in the historical sights occasionally, and never actually made it up the Acropolis. Athen's air quality is often very poor. But the day I visited the Acropolis museum, the air was clear as crystal. The clarity was so unreal, so stunning, that I kept turning from the reconstructed Parthenon frieze to gaze out the windows over the city.
I went to Greece this summer with students and they kept dropping their metal water bottles in enclosed spaces. CLANG
Extreme heat also diminishes the capacity to wonder, I find.
I want to go to Greece and be unimpressed (?) by the unreal...
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