Notre Dame Cathedral gargoyles. When I first arrived in Paris, I couldn't stop taking pictures of gargoyles. But it was night, and none of them turned out. Later I learned that gargoyles were everywhere, in all sorts of forms and states of decay. Like snowflakes, no two of them are alike.

There's something appealing about the Gothic sentiment: putting sinister little monsters on the roofs of holy buildings. Can you imagine an American religious movement showing such a sensibility?

I wonder whom the guy with the hat was modeled upon.

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