On Monday, July 1, the Met ends the use of metal admission buttons.
[I am happy to have two such buttons that I can account for.]
Friday, June 28, 2013
M was for Metropolitan
On Monday, July 1, the Met ends the use of metal admission buttons.
[I am happy to have two such buttons that I can account for.]
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I'd have to go hunting, but I may have one too, from our visit in 2000. If I find it, I'll make sure it find a place of honour, somewhere.
Nothing lasts forever, not even Mesopotamia. (From the movie "Michael", paraphrased.)
What a great line. I will have to use it the next time I teach the Gilgamesh story.
I recommend you find a copy of "Michael" (with John Travolta as the angel) and enjoy the whole thing, even if you've seen it before. You'll get closer to the actual line, if that's important. They were talking about visiting famous ancient sites and someone said, "that doesn't exist any more" - I think it was about an old cannonball. Michael mused that he had had a great time centuries before in Mesopotamia, and someone said "Mesopotamia doesn't exist any more either." My husband and I have taken to using our paraphrase as our shorthand way of referring to the movie we love, as well as the impermanence of things. You don't have to give us credit, or the movie either! :-)
Surly it is anough of an icon to start selling as a button instead of a ticket? They would have a pretty decent markup with reletively little storage space.
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