05 January 2010

Time Machine?

While watching The Ascent of Man through for the second time, I've reached a point in episode 3, "Grain in the Stone", in which Dr Bronowski was at Reims Cathedral (Notre Dame de Reims), discussing the mathematics of the structure, and its part in human intellectual heritage.

The programme was made about eighteen years before I was in some of those same places, which in turn was some eighteen years ago.

It just struck me that I need to try to find my photos from that trip. I've moved many times since then, but they're bound to turn up somewhere, eventually...

It also struck me that even now, thirty-five years after it was broadcast, The Ascent of Man is still absolutely brilliant, and essential viewing.

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