“Twin Towers”, “Golgotha”, “Moscow’s ‘City’”…

the stories of New York’s “Twin Towers” and Jerusalem’s “Golgotha” – join the ruins of Rome(s), Carthage(s),…and all other cities, to remind that sic transit gloria mundi. and our cities’ buildings continue to bear a false sense of permanence in our lives and world.

it seems that Thomas à Kempis’ – who is believed to be the source of the idea of the expression, which was used in Papal coronation ceremonies – thought of some scholars who, once “important”, were then, as we say today, dead and gone. (presumably, though, he felt one life, an inimitable one, was not “a passing glory of this world”.)

Scipio Africanus in Carthage, remembering Troy, pre-cognizing the future “fate” of Rome (559 years before it occurred) is more true to the scale and depth we require today.

and Moscow’s “City” yet languishes from being a quickly-built, respectable, sky-scraping business area due to another financial crisis.