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Griechenland: Der Parthenon auf der Akropolis Part 2 Blind are the eyes that do not shed tears while seeing, O Greece beloved, your sacred objects plundered by profane English hands that have again wounded your aching bosom and snatched your gods… QUOTATIONS The extreme definiteness with which they stand, now a brilliant white, again yellow, and in some lights red, imposes ideas of durability, of the emergence through the earth of some spiritual energy elsewhere dissipated in elegant trifles. But this durability exists quite independently of our admiration. Although the beauty is sufficiently humane to weaken us, to stir the deep deposit of mud--memories, abandonments, regrets, sentimental devotions--the Parthenon is separate from all that; and if you consider how it has stood out all night, for centuries, you begin to connect the blaze (at midday the glare is dazzling and the frieze almost invisible) with the idea that perhaps it is beauty alone that is immortal. Virginia Woolf, LINKS
Jr., Robert Bowie Johnson, , Solving Light Books (June, 2004) ISBN: 0970543832 (A "Christian" interpretation of the "Pagan" Parthenon sculptures)
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