06 January 2011

fiRST oNE mAN sHOW @ tHE mETROPOLITAN mUSEUM

Gate Nimrud
Entrance Gate from Northwest, Palace at Nimrud, Nineveh, Mesopotamia, 9th Century BC

Those people might have been murderers, sadists, brutes, ugly apish subhumans for all I knew, but I found myself thinking.

 "What charming people, what flair, how beautiful they are. Steinbeck