This week's prompt for Sepia Saturday is long. I like finding something on these themes...whcih seem to go all over the place...now long/short, soon high/low will be coming!
But here's another "long" to satisfy this meme.
The earliest surviving fan vaults are the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral in England are , designed between 1351 and 1377 by Thomas de Cantebrugge. Source: Archeology & Civilizations facebook post.
Today's quote: (not sure I agree with him)
In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive … For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so to derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator, is the root meaning of religion.
—D. H. Lawrence
