20 November 2005

Things we don't think about



This is a map of the Vatican.


And if you look on the map you'll see St. Peter's Square. Within St. Peter's square is a rectangle demarcating an obelisk. The text on the map is a little small, so here's a photograph depicting what you would see if you were near the obelisk looking towards the basilica.

Say you are standing in the space shown in the last picture and you decide to go inside and take a tour. You want to see Michaelangelo's "Pieta," and of course you also want to the Sistine Chapel. And but so imagine you are on a tour and that as your guide walks backwards through the Vatican museum and informs you and your group about the origins of the gold-leaf trim along the molding near the ceiling in the corridor you manage you to sneak away. You leave the pack and just try the first doorknob you see. Miraculously, it opens. As you stop to think about what you will do now that you are in this location you turn around and see this:








What would you say if you walked in on Il Papa Benedicto XVI and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi doing this? What is this? What the Hell is this?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of a New Yoker joke.
My momma made it out of Almond Paste but don't eat it from the head down.