Friday, January 06, 2006

The Boyne and the Nile

Allowing that it's probably a mistake to have the New York Times in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, our thought process on the following clauses of an overly long sentence from a very positive NYT article about Irish design --

This year a major arts center by Grafton Architects in Dublin, featuring a luminous marble mosaic facade, will open in County Meath, and at the foot of the Great Pyramids in Egypt,

was: wait a minute, the arts center (sic) is in Meath and Egypt? Or the Pyramids are in Meath? Of course Meath already has Newgrange, and if the Pyramids really were in Meath, the government would have paved them over to build a motorway, so we realized that our thought process couldn't be right.

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