To spend one's mornings in still,
productive analysis of the clustered shadows of the Basilica, one's afternoons
anywhere in church or campo, on canal or lagoon, and one's evenings in
starlight gossip at Florian's, feeling the sea-breeze throb languidly between
the two great pillars of the Piazzetta and over the low black domes of the
church—this, I consider, is to be as happy as is consistent with the
preservation of reason.
—Henry James, “Venice: An Early Impression”
image: Christie B. Cochrell, Brown Palazzo
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