INCIDENTALLY: I have a new favorite part of the university: the slide room in Tappan Hall.
Want an in situ picture of a 9th Century apse mosaic? Would you like the lighter or darker version?
Want to get a slide of that neat bit of statuary you saw at the Cleveland Museum of Art, but you can't remember the name of the piece? Just go to the drawer marked 'Cleveland' and find it!
Even better, of course, was being in there with my professor, who just bounded around the room finding good slides for me (to wit: Me: "I need an image of a saint..." Prof. Sears [runs around for a second, then comes back]: "Here's a St. Elutherius... will this do? I also have a nice St. Roche here...").
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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