10:17<\/p>\n
The sharpness of the shadows that danced across the dingy ceiling of the old apartment was broken down by the tiny hills and valleys of the chipped and stained stucco. No longer a coherent whole, the luminous artifacts had become something different, something reminiscent of\u2026<\/p>\n
The beaver craned his neck up and slowly turned, following the graceful white pathway that spiralled round and round, up and up until it ended in the bright glass skylight that seemed to dance and swirl with the intricate architecture, the light and the shadow performing a lively Troika. Mesmerized the beaver continued to turn, becoming entwined in the movement and the joy of Mr Wright’s architectural masterpiece; it was all he had hoped it would be and he savoured the moment.<\/p>\n
All too soon the disconcerted fluids in his inner ear informed him that if he didn’t stop they would soon force the issue and the beaver slowly settled to a halt and lowered his eyes to drink in the rest of the Guggenheim’s unique and, in his opinion, unsurpassed glory. His head spinning and the wild abandon of the dance of light and shadow still swirling through his mind, the beaver drank in the moment and committed the composition to memory.<\/p>\n
It had taken some doing \u2014 it had taken too much doing \u2014 but the beaver’s love of structure and form had finally found its apotheosis. Here was the embodiment of the art of architecture. No simplistic and haphazard dam of mud and wood, no grandiose cathedral, a monstrosity born of ego and venality, no, this was calm and smooth, born of a desire to express the beauty and simplicity of man’s true role in the cosmos. This, this\u2026 magnificence, and it truly was worthy of the name, was as human and as personal as any intimate experience yet was formed from nothing more than the freedom of space and light and the shapes of nature: as wild as the forests and as untamed as the seas.<\/p>\n
The beaver sat and drank it all in, leaving himself lost in that sweet anticipation and refusing to acknowledge the hustle and bustle of the people around him.<\/p>\n
And because he was not truly there in the centre of the lobby on the first floor of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the feeling was all that registered at that moment; not the reverberating and ear-rending bang, not the acrid odour that threatened to choke him of his breath, not the iron taste of the warmth that spattered across his face and left him half blinded and disconnected from his surroundings.<\/p>\n
At that moment the beaver was entirely alone with his thoughts and utterly disconnected from the hell that had mere seconds ago been a peaceful and beautiful backdrop to the archetype of everything the beaver believed good in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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