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The New Acropolis museum has a restaurant
where one can enjoy
the most marvellous of views of the Parthenon,
engagement ring of Athens in all its ancient glory.
Some say: Everything would be just divine
if there wasn't an old neoclassical building
standing obstinately in the way.
With an imperfect view, would you like to eat and stay?
To linger in a new museum that took so long to build
but that surely now that it exists,
is not quite as it had willed?
I prefer to rest with the 'obstructing' building of old,
taking in the new museum and the stories I am told,
by one middle-aged building telling me about the ancient past
that has made its simple life neoclassically outlast
glass-cased and labeled commonality.
Walking along Dyonissiou Aeropagitou one afternoon I witnessed this filming made in protest of the then threat by the Acropolis Museum that this home, office and historical building was going to be torn down. I think the costumes worn by the actors is quite self-explanatory!
where one can enjoy
the most marvellous of views of the Parthenon,
engagement ring of Athens in all its ancient glory.
Some say: Everything would be just divine
if there wasn't an old neoclassical building
standing obstinately in the way.
With an imperfect view, would you like to eat and stay?
To linger in a new museum that took so long to build
but that surely now that it exists,
is not quite as it had willed?
I prefer to rest with the 'obstructing' building of old,
taking in the new museum and the stories I am told,
by one middle-aged building telling me about the ancient past
that has made its simple life neoclassically outlast
glass-cased and labeled commonality.
Walking along Dyonissiou Aeropagitou one afternoon I witnessed this filming made in protest of the then threat by the Acropolis Museum that this home, office and historical building was going to be torn down. I think the costumes worn by the actors is quite self-explanatory!
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