2023.03.12
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
Not until this afternoon while working on tomorrows page did I learn (again) that Miers Fisher died today in 1819. A kind of calendrical coincidence echo of my finding out about the Constantinian Lateran basilica on the date of Piranesi's death.
It's metaphysically strange to ask myself why all these people and discoveries are falling into my lap, while it's a reality for me now to know what it's like having my brother fall into my lap to save him from falling potentially crushingly onto the floor--three times in the last 24 hours.
Interestingly, and perhaps even fortuitously fittingly, Miers Fisher died (and often lived) on the same block as (or on the block facing) the National Constitution Center. It's almost 25 years since I've walked on that part of Arch Street.
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