Ancien Regime

The Storming of the Basille (July 14, 1789)

Tourists are attracted to Rome because of the ruins. The past can be inviting if kept at arms length. Visitors team around Hadrian’s Tomb like flies to shit. However there are different pasts. Yesterday does not produce an effusion of tourists with old fashioned Leicas dangling from their necks. Yesterday is more the province of therapy than travel. Where are the monuments to intra-psychic development? Perhaps they are the property of imagination and memories--left with one’s confessor whether priest or analyst. Everyone possesses an ancient civilization which is sometimes only a nightmare away.

read "The El" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and read "The Waste Land" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn