The Kount is saying these new town blues are melting away
It's Tuesday August 24, 1999 9:29 PM … Q Inn … Stalybridge, Cheshire England
I went to York this last Sunday … It was a beautiful
sunny day perfect for an outing … The first thing I noticed
when approaching Selby (a town near York) was the landscape reminded
me of Kansas … very flat farmland with shelter belts and
Big Blue Skies. The Cloud formations afforded a great perspective
of white cotton ships floating away toward the horizon.
When we arrived at York I first noticed the medieval wall that
surrounds the old city … It didn't look that old. It's made
of manganese limestone that cleans itself in the rain. It was
still very impressive and the bars "barriers" to the
city were large ominous fortress-like gates that were the entrances
to the old city. The picture I sent is the Mickle bar. I had to
continually remind myself this is real and not a Hollywood façade.
It was too real too perfect. The confusion is what made it even
that much more impressive.
I also went to the York Minster. The Largest Cathedral in England
… I was Huge Like St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York with
the Huge Exception that York Minster was built 500 years Earlier.
It's the real thing! St Patrick's on the other hand is a stylistic
copy of this magnificent feat. It makes me want to see Chartes
all that much more. It's mind blowing to think that mortals built
this massive geometric poem. Only a hard frightened atheist would
deny the Spirit of the universe singing in that space.
A 14th century wonder!
Memories for a lifetime
The Kount