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From the notes I kept while in Paris:
My reward for waiting several dull hours for business this morning was getting to go to the Louvre. I mastered the Metro - intimidating at first but easy to pick up, because it's well laid-out and goes everywhere you want to go - and spent about four hours wandering the corridors of a museum that can only be described as mammoth. It's really all too much when every wall has a masterpiece. You can't slow down for every one - you find yourself scooting past them an an appalling rate. You're looking at the Titian of the hottie guy with the glove, and then you pass something that was on your slide test, and there's one that's featured in every single Art History 101 class ever taught. So you pick a few to deliberately find, and on your way to them you are happily surprised by others (OMG the Penitent Magdalene is here! I totally forgot!) and when you leave you realize that you totally, absolutely meant to see this list of other works and now it's too late because your feet are ready to seize control and make you SIT DOWN ALREADY.
( Decadence comes in a tiny pitcher with a side of whipped cream )
My reward for waiting several dull hours for business this morning was getting to go to the Louvre. I mastered the Metro - intimidating at first but easy to pick up, because it's well laid-out and goes everywhere you want to go - and spent about four hours wandering the corridors of a museum that can only be described as mammoth. It's really all too much when every wall has a masterpiece. You can't slow down for every one - you find yourself scooting past them an an appalling rate. You're looking at the Titian of the hottie guy with the glove, and then you pass something that was on your slide test, and there's one that's featured in every single Art History 101 class ever taught. So you pick a few to deliberately find, and on your way to them you are happily surprised by others (OMG the Penitent Magdalene is here! I totally forgot!) and when you leave you realize that you totally, absolutely meant to see this list of other works and now it's too late because your feet are ready to seize control and make you SIT DOWN ALREADY.
( Decadence comes in a tiny pitcher with a side of whipped cream )
