When I was in fifth grade, my class took a trip from our school in Brooklyn to an exotic land on the other side of a frigid, turbid body of water: the East River. We, of course, went to Manhattan.
In that exotic isle, we visited the Metropolitan Opera House of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which was then only a few years old. I knew nothing about opera or classical music, but the place had me entranced in a way no amusement park ever could.
What had me most enthralled were the chandeliers. I'd never seen anything like them, and few things have ever fixated themselves in my mind as they did. To this day, I don't know whether it showed that I had exquisite taste at an early age or that I was simply a magpie in a human body. Whatever the case, I simply could not take my eyes away from them.
I decided, then and there, that if I ever became rich, I would want such a fixture hanging over my dining room table.
In the meantime, though, I might go for this:
Carolina Fontoura Alzaga constructed this masterpiece from bicycle chains. Somehow it seems even more operatic and baroque than the ones in Lincoln Center. I love it!
In that exotic isle, we visited the Metropolitan Opera House of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which was then only a few years old. I knew nothing about opera or classical music, but the place had me entranced in a way no amusement park ever could.
What had me most enthralled were the chandeliers. I'd never seen anything like them, and few things have ever fixated themselves in my mind as they did. To this day, I don't know whether it showed that I had exquisite taste at an early age or that I was simply a magpie in a human body. Whatever the case, I simply could not take my eyes away from them.
I decided, then and there, that if I ever became rich, I would want such a fixture hanging over my dining room table.
In the meantime, though, I might go for this:
Carolina Fontoura Alzaga constructed this masterpiece from bicycle chains. Somehow it seems even more operatic and baroque than the ones in Lincoln Center. I love it!
