The travel website says
you should leave at least
half an hour to fully enjoy
the cathedral. It has 34
chapels, a unique exterior
and interior, and it would
take me hours even to glance
over all the glorious light and
shadow, especially because
the windows were built to
make the nature of the light
change inside as the sun
moves across the sky outside,
something I would never
have noticed on my own,
because who can sit still
and watch surrounded by
all that soot-stained stonework,
imagining the raising of the
keystone and arches with
ropes and pulleys and
sweat and blood
and Plague and Inquisition
or the time it burned for
11 days and almost fell apart.
The travel website is silly
to think 30 minutes can
contain all that beauty.
It's probably a good
thing I will never go there
because I would weep
at all those tourists
who could see all
they wanted to see
(who thought they had
seen everything
there is to see)
in 30 minutes.
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