Merry Christmas!
Posted by Sayamindu 3 years, 9 months ago
Woke up in the morning and went to attend the early morning service at St Paul’s Cathedral. Whenever I go to St Paul’s, I am inevitably reminded of Geoffrey Moorhouse in Calcutta
“..and indeed, when you get inside Calcutta Cathedral, it would be possible to lose yourself in a reverie which persuaded you that you were medidating in some splendid wool church of the Cotswolds rather than an outpost of God’s Empire on the Tropic of Cancer. ”
Of course, then he goes on to say…
“One thing, however, soon dispels hallucination. For the wide white roof, with its moulded Tudor roses all shining with gilt, is partially obscured by the network of ironmongery necessary for the suspension of forty-six great fans one after the other above the choir and the nave; which has never been known to happen anywhere in the see of Gloucester.”
Anyway, I spent the rest of the day mostly listening to music and reading this.
