Notre Dame

Our hotel was in the Latin Quarter, which is really close to the famous Notre Dame. Maybe you've heard of it? Disney made a cartoon movie about it and it's gargoyles. I liked the sexy lust scenes the best in that. It might have been based on some book or something. Whatever. The cathedral was really beautiful though. But what cathedral, especially in Paris, isn't? It is great how we gape and awe at these exercises in past opulence. These palaces of man-made beauty are built from the blood of the poor and forgotten. And they are not built for praise of the Heavens alone. They were built to show off how rich and excessive we and our great culture can be. Still, these are the things that elevate man to a level closer to God. We become creators on a grand scale, squeezing the awe out of new thousands of people everyday just like God's creations: Crater Lake, The Grand Canyon, Solar de Ununi, Denali, etc. etc.


I gaped. I loved it.