He sat at a desk in the darkened classroom of his architecture class, viewing on the wall the projected slide of a large, beautiul temple in a minor town in the south of India, with mountains rising in the distance, and town apartments sprawled around the temple.He sat at a desk in the darkened classroom of his architecture class, viewing on the wall the projected slide of a large, beautiul temple in a minor town in the south of India, with mountains rising in the distance, and town apartments sprawled around the temple. The professor noted that the photographer took the photo from the roof of a nearby cheap hotel. He imagined himself on the roof of that hotel, observing the town, and all the somewhat decrepit buildings who had been captured in the photo along with the temple. |