Take my hand, traveler, and let us go up the tower.

Look below, and look around.

Look right to the end of the horizon, look

From north to south. Everywhere your eye happens to fall

It attaches itself with fire, like the eye of a snake.

—Alfred de Vigny, “Paris” (1831)

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