17 Aug 2022

Nearer my god (here I am nearest to god, but farthest from the air conditioning — they say heat rises). I think of Tranströmer and his Roman arches, vaults within vaults within vaults. I thought it was psychological but it is physical. I brought it down to earth, cool and dark.

In the foreground out of focus, a man holds up a phone to take a photo of Raphael’s painting “The School of Athens” in the Vatican.

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