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05/26/06 // Blog Post from Prague // Prague // Czech Republic: Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds “He tried to gather up and hold the phrase or harmony… that was passing by him and that opened his soul so much wider, the way the smells of certain roses circulating in the damp evening air have the property of dilating our nostrils.”— Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way Places have signature colors, they inscribe themselves onto you in liquid strokes … continue reading » Topics: Architecture, Death, Europe, Holocaust, Human Rights, Memory, Round The World Trip, War
05/10/06 // Blog Post from Budapest Marriot // Budapest // Hungary: Refracted Light and Grace My first impressions of central Europe were from the plane coming in low over Budapest where I noted that the typical Soviet architectural blights. Every colonizing country seems to leave behind some token of itself, a scent, not unlike a dog pausing to lift a leg on every tree it passes. The French tend to leave behind Arc de Triomphes … continue reading » Topics: Architecture, Europe, Holocaust, Monument, Negative Space, Round The World Trip

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