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EAT (and I cannot stress this enough) THE RICH
Apparently my love for art can be easily overshadowed by my hatred for rich people.
I got to go to the most amazing Museum today, Le Musee Gustave Moreau. He has the range! The impressionists could never! He has a very expressive style-- he uses these rich, deep, and often dark colors, and has a thing for Orpheus. It's like neoclassical subject matter meets impressionist style meets symbolist sentiment, you know? And the paintings were huge! And you could see his sketches a lot of the time, which I really love. There was this painting of Mary at the site of the crucifixion, and her expression broke my heart. I also wonder what "victims" was all about, she was so striking. also, the bathroom was super cool (especially the sink). the floor is created a symphony. (Also was Moureau gay?) I have so many questions I will be googling later.
now I'm sitting on the steps of the church very small in the middle of the rich part of town the first arrondisment because I just want to get out but I needed to cool down. I could never live in a big city. The people who live there are too rich and therefore the city itself either caters to rich people or dumb tourists and frankly, I'm sick of it. even the rich part of Lexington isn't this bad. Yikes! It's just so absurd to me what rich people by and how they buy it and how much money in real estate is wasted on stores that the actual business from a generous estimate of 5 people per day. So yeah. They're right. Socialism forever. Small town Pride. and yes, I count Lexington is a small town. After being in Paris for this long, I can't help but describe it any other way.
After solo day, I really liked sitting in the park and just eating with everybody. I loved sitting on the point of the Ile de la Cite and just eating bread and cheese and Mimosas and talking with everybody. It's the slow and small communal moments of this trip that I have really enjoyed.
Apparently my love for art can be easily overshadowed by my hatred for rich people.
I got to go to the most amazing Museum today, Le Musee Gustave Moreau. He has the range! The impressionists could never! He has a very expressive style-- he uses these rich, deep, and often dark colors, and has a thing for Orpheus. It's like neoclassical subject matter meets impressionist style meets symbolist sentiment, you know? And the paintings were huge! And you could see his sketches a lot of the time, which I really love. There was this painting of Mary at the site of the crucifixion, and her expression broke my heart. I also wonder what "victims" was all about, she was so striking. also, the bathroom was super cool (especially the sink). the floor is created a symphony. (Also was Moureau gay?) I have so many questions I will be googling later.
now I'm sitting on the steps of the church very small in the middle of the rich part of town the first arrondisment because I just want to get out but I needed to cool down. I could never live in a big city. The people who live there are too rich and therefore the city itself either caters to rich people or dumb tourists and frankly, I'm sick of it. even the rich part of Lexington isn't this bad. Yikes! It's just so absurd to me what rich people by and how they buy it and how much money in real estate is wasted on stores that the actual business from a generous estimate of 5 people per day. So yeah. They're right. Socialism forever. Small town Pride. and yes, I count Lexington is a small town. After being in Paris for this long, I can't help but describe it any other way.
After solo day, I really liked sitting in the park and just eating with everybody. I loved sitting on the point of the Ile de la Cite and just eating bread and cheese and Mimosas and talking with everybody. It's the slow and small communal moments of this trip that I have really enjoyed.
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