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March 26, 2005

Room of her own

n 1974, when I was a mere slip of a girl, I was in the Louvre--and the Mona Lisa wasn't. She did return from her trip to Japan, and she's been there ever since. She'll be away again on April 4, for one day only, and after that, she'll have a room of her own. It's speculated that she may never leave.

As Walker Percy said of the Grand Canyon, it is almost impossible to see the Mona Lisa for the first time. My memory of the time I did get to see her, on a second trip to Paris years later, has more to do with forbidden flash bulbs going off than anything else.

Well, what the heck, accept the fluster. Sample the "interactive Mona Lisa" (from the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie). Try this experiment (from San Francisco's Exploratorium). Awash yourself in Mona images! Verily, it's inspirational.

Posted by Eric at March 26, 2005 9:02 PM

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Posted by: krusty at March 26, 2005 10:55 PM