I Could Have Told You Vincent

Thursday we all slept in a little later and began class around 10:00am. Following our discussion of Ionesco and recieving our assignment to write monologues (which people will be typing up here on the blog, they just don't know it yet) about a piece of artwork we find we set out to the Louvre. We went to our customary Metro stop and waited for our customary Metro train. Which never came. There was something wrong with the line but all we could decipher from the announcements was 'Ladies and Gentlemen' and 'traffic'. So we walked to another line and got on there eventually. We proceeded on to the Louvre that is like everything else here that is famous, incredibly, indefinably big. At least One Thousand miles in circumference (thats just a round estimate). Once inside we all split up to explore this metropolis of art. You could tell a lot about each person by their choices of what to see and how fast to see them. We had from about 12:30 until 6:00 to view whatever we wanted to in the Louvre. Some chose fast and many so chose slow and few. Personally I journeyed to the Grand Gallery to see the Mona Lisa which is the size of a poster from Wally World. The best way for me to describe the Louvre is like falling asleep in your Art History class and wearing your legs out walking around a gaudily appointed maze full of what your teacher and book were just talking about. The 'Raft of the Medusa', 'Wedding Feast at Cana', 'The Dying Slave' and on and on and on. My favorite artifact at the Louvre is a large black obelisque enscribed with the Code of Hamurabi. Cuneiform is far more ornate and far tinier than I could have ever imagined. They had many small tablets covered in Cuneiform writing that were just incredible. They were no bigger than a small notepad and contained probably 40-50 lines of Cuneiform. We all also went to the inverted pyramid in the Louvre, any DaVincie Code fans? The right side up Glass Pyramid of the Louvre is very beautiful, its main flaw is that it acts like a huge greenhouse making the entrance of the Louvre very, very 'warm'. We spent the evening after the Louvre drinking wine and planning the next day, Friday we plan to see the Basilica of ST. Denis where Charlemagne, Dagobert and many other French kings are entombed. Mahalo
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