That’s One Big Tower
Monday, September 4th, 20063:01 PM, 9-4-06
So the Eiffel Tower. It really takes seeing the tower to truly realize it. It’s just so big. I’d seen pictures, of course, but I’d never really comprehended the immensity of the great steel creature. (At least, I think it’s steel…) As I had wandered Paris, it had loomed in the distance, as if it were some kind of embodiment of modernity watching over the antiquity of Paris. From a distance, it had not appeared particularly humungous. [read on]