Alexandria Gothic
This photo was taken from the upper window of a hotel I frequent Alexandria, Egypt. Ancient mysticism, philosophy, and cosmopolitanism linger amid the decaying facades of faded but glorious architectural marvels of the King Farouk era.
I keep coming back to this view.
"Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older, we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward."-William Butler Yeats