Sublime

After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,

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Standout paintings from 90 minutes at the MET:

• The Conversion of St. Paul (1456)

• The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (1465)

• The Transformation of the Holy House of Loreto (1490)

• The Adoration of the Christ Child (1515)

• Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underword (1630s)

• Pilate Washing His Hands (1663)

• Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge (1745)

• Al

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