Castles
As anyone who knows me recognizes, I am absolutely batty for castles. The other day I visited the tower on campus. It isn't much now...long ago forgotten by any academics and now filled with the remains of the bacchanals of the modern college student...but still somehow when tromping around the toppled stone and ivy covered remains, you feel in touch with a history long gone. Climbing up to the top of the tower, it was as if I was looking out on my own kingdom, as some long lost knights and earls once did. I wish more people would take time out of the day to entertain such thoughts and images. As fine as any fantasy novel, just touching the stone of the domiciles of old is a visionary experience.