Sunday, May 3, 2009

rose line

Made famous by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, the rose line (longitude 2°20′14.025″ east) was originally used by the French for mapping and time keeping purposes before being displaced by the Greenwich Meridian. It felt so surreal when I realized that I would be going to the see the original Rose Line.

Inside Saint Sulpice Cathedral, the Rose line would have been missed if an informed friend hadn't pointed it out to me. It was not the way which I had imagined it. After staring at it for a while, it lost its novelty. It's just a line.

"the rose line."-cj

again. it's just a line.

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