It is a magnificent sublime wilderness where horizons are wide when they're not broken by the craggy splendour of an ancient volcanic landscape.
A few tram stops beyond the baroque splendour is a structure that has little to do with glory.
In October 1519, for instance, Babur rode out to Istalif with friends: “Its lawns were one sheet of trefoil; its pomegranate trees yellowed to autumn splendour, their fruit full red.”
Soon after, their marriage was celebrated with great splendour, and the fawn was taken the greatest care of, and played where he pleased, or roamed about the castle grounds in happiness and safety.
"In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!"
Cai Lei's hyper realistic sculptures enthrall us with a kind of morbid fascination that draws us to appreciate its eccentric beauty along with the brutal splendour of reality.
All those things pale into insignificance when we face the splendour of what it is that makes us tick.
