Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Fleeting glory.

Ooh! Look! Another mention in the paper, and this time in the dead-tree edition. Two weeks ago, a Post columnist had complained that he'd never seen the Mona Lisa in Washington. Well, hmmph. Some of us did. I couldn't remember the precise year, but my recollection was that it was during the Kennedy presidency.

A decade later, when I went to the Louvre in hopes of seeing the painting in its native habitat, I suppose I shouldn't have been all that surprised to discover that it wasn't there - it was on loan to the Soviet Union.

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