Kunstkammer

I love a cabinet of curiosities.  I dream of transcending Chaos (which I live in) to a sphere of heaven thickly starred with objets d'art, with box in box of shells, Delft, ivory, amber, and intaglio:  things to toy with, rooms to ravish all the senses, "sounds and sweet airs that give delight, and hurt not."  Don't you love the nymph with her iPad?'

Of course, the Library is just along that silvery corridor.

And if all this beauty palls, just out there are the gardens, terraced to the river, and the hills beyond.

Nine