Posted by Declan on December 13, 2006, at 15:31:06
In reply to Re: Assaults to my self-esteem » Declan, posted by LlurpsieBlossom on December 12, 2006, at 16:20:01
I went to Prague in the 70s and never got over it. Smell of coal dust in the streets, and just a few people and spies in the cathedral. There was a novel "Kepler" by John Banville and the feel was so strange and dark. Kepler had a position with Prince Rudolph, maybe? The creator of the Prague townclock was blinded so he could not replicate his achievement, rather like the bloke who did the Taj Mahall? He got his revenge by throwing a spanner in the works some time later and it took them decades to fix it.
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