Current status…

…a wee bit closer to finding the building with sonnet 30 chiseled on its exterior. We think it may be in Leiden. The architecture is neo-classical, so that fits. The Dutch are nothing if not experimental with their building arts.

It’s the corner of the Houtstraat and Rapenburg 30, Leiden. (Thanks Pip)!

I also like that about people who decorate their buildings with a poem. There’s an Emily Dickinson poem painted on someone’s wall on the Marnixstraat close to the Leidseplein. It goes…

‘To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
a clover, a bee and a reverie.
The reverie alone will do, if bees are few’

…off the top of my head.

Love the shortness and pithiness. Pithy is a great word to mouth. Thick lipped drunks mumbling in the night. Pity us you straight-edgers.

As the man says in sonnet 111,

‘Even that your pity is enough to cure me’.