this is the church of st. george or bete giyorgis in lalibela, ethiopia --- carved out of solid rock in the 12th century, before there was teevee
check out the link, a whole series of ancient structures carved into rock
the prayer hall below is from a site in india dating to the 2nd century b.c. --- what a magnificent space
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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