Cooper Union

New York high life contagion- bought stock, built expensive building.This is a despicable decision. The best school in NYC is destroyed. It was the best because it had the best students not the best faculty. Now with tuition, will the best apply? It will not be the same. A jewel that is losing its value.

Modernity angel at the library.

Went to see La La at the circus (now at Morgan Library). Got a little lost at the entrance and climbed some stairs and got to see the Degas painting of the black angel climbing to the circus vault  in a painting slashed by a vertical line.  An angel with no visible face, hanging by her teeth. Seems that in her real Fernando Circus  performances she was carrying a canon from these teeth??
 Leaving the room, went to take  the elevator and found myself in the air in the extraordinary space with  glass above, below and in front of me, sparkling in the sun. For a couple of seconds I felt I was myself an angel.

Seeing thru same glasses

Everybody had an opinion on this event, along previous stereotypical and regrettable opinions:
The Chechen president thinks America is the problem.
The boys' father thinks it is a set-up (like everything else in Russia and the former...).
The NRA premier members think that if everybody had a gun  in Boston, they wouldn't have had to shut the city down.
The anti immigrant strongmen think...we all know what.
As to myself...just crazy young people. What were they going to do, the brothers? aside Tolstoy, nobody likes the Chechens very much....
I also think it's an unwelcome precedent to shut completely an entire city. Like they never had stranglers  roaming the streets before,  Just shows how small Boston is.