A Night In The Byzantine Palace

A Night in the Byzantine PalaceA monarch is dying. Today, a thin quiet man stands and watches through a gauze of dust as its faceless enemies pull it down -- or, rather, begin to pull it down, for its splendor even now is too ranging for any foe to demolish in a single day. Immense, it resists with every ton of its mass, with every dome, with every wall and pier, every cornice and buttress, every pierced balcony, every apse and nave and arched recess. Each little corbel resists, each metal finia...