Sailing to Byzantium
Jan. 2nd, 2007 01:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeI'm watching a documentary right now about Byzantium (oddly, earlier today I was watching the first 30 minutes of Midnight Express). There's a strong strain of Byzantine culture in Russia (which is still going strong today--Russia's Orthodox lean is one example), so the documentary deals with that as well. One thing that makes me wonder is seeing the grandeur and scale of these old, old buildings. The things that determine what makes a "good" building (engineering, geometry, scale, etc.) had all been figured out by the people over a thousand years ago--by medical and technological standards, these people are primitive, but by architectural standards they were, essentially, our peers. They left buildings and structures that are still standing, still utilitarian. And when you see the pictures of how some of the buildings originally looked, the palaces and churches--they were amazing. Shining, glorious, gilded towers and spires reaching up to the heavens. Where did these people get the inspiration? Kiev was a frozen wasteland back then--how the hell did these people take time off from fighting the weather, from surviving, to create these glorious churches and icons?
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Date: 2007-01-02 12:25 pm (UTC)BTW: Was that a leather skirt I saw you wearing in Duncan's photos of the party? Maybe it was a good thing I didn't come. Just kiddin', but GROOOOWL! ;-)
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Date: 2007-01-02 03:59 pm (UTC)BTW, just so you know, I am planning to sell a pair of black leather shorts on eBay--perhaps your new ladyfriend would be interested in them? (Seriously--maybe she's into the same thing?) They are a fairly small size, but they are very well made and I've worn them maybe once or twice.
Seriously--maybe she's into the same thing?...
Date: 2007-01-02 05:36 pm (UTC)Now, as for my new "ladyfriend": she is a very sweet, sweet sensible girl and not the sort of lady who would ever be interested in or "into" fetish clothing, persay... and the like. No, "really"... *nudge, nudge, wink, wink...say no more... ;-)
Re: Seriously--maybe she's into the same thing?...
Date: 2007-01-02 05:51 pm (UTC)Um, ...joke? Remember joke?
Date: 2007-01-02 05:59 pm (UTC)Re: Um, ...joke? Remember joke?
Date: 2007-01-02 06:04 pm (UTC)Re: Um, ...joke? Remember joke?
Date: 2007-01-02 06:09 pm (UTC)Re: Um, ...joke? Remember joke?
Date: 2007-01-02 06:34 pm (UTC)Re: Um, ...joke? Remember joke?
Date: 2007-01-02 06:45 pm (UTC)Her name is Dani and she is "girlafraid" and she just may be the love of my life. :-)