Comment Gallery
Amongst the Angels
Recoleta Cemetary in Buenos Aires, Argentina is where the super-wealthy and powerful of Argentina lay in state for eternity. It is at once a stunning and absurd triumph of the Christian ego. Here one finds colossal examples of Neoclassical, Neogothic, Art Nuevo, and Art Deco archetecture amongst the more than 6,400 mausoleums.
Here one can find mausoleums the size of small churches. Apparantly, only the Pére Lachaise of Paris compares.
My girlfriend and I were stunned by the triumphs of beauty and by the enormity of humanity’s narcism. As we came around one corner of this bizarre world we came upon what I later discovered to be called the Dome of the Angels.
I am not a Christian – but couldn’t help feel something magnificent when looking up at them.
Maybe it was the sense of eternity, or peace, which they exuded. Perhaps it was a moment of nostalgia for a gnostic understanding of the world that seems to be evaporating in the Tea Party Christian nonsense infecting our culture.
Maybe it was a reminder that death is forever, and they looked down on me wondering what I was doing with my one and precious life…
Average rating: 
Trudy
April 9th, 2011
4:07am
eopeiI IJWTS wow! Why can’t I think of things like that?