When I was in college I had the opportunity to spend a year in Oxford, dwelling amidst centuries-old buildings that housed many ghosts of ages past. I was able to take some time to tour Europe and visit museums, cathedrals, city squares, and monuments that breathed the rarefied air of antiquity. Symbols of culture, these, and they elicited from my young mind images of figures whose writings, paintings, sculptures, and music chronicled the history of an entire civilization.
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