so, you know when you were dragged on those school trips, or went droopy-faced along with the family or type-A sight-seeing friend to yet one more palace… room after room leading into yet another arched doorway. yawn. floor-to-ceiling windows, romantically draped drapes, statues behind glass, museum lighting, some red-satin cords keeping you off the furniture? sometimes you’re led into a room with a banquet table - some servingware left to ogle at…you find yourself smiling and humming, “6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot, bunch!”… when you start getting really bored, you start wondering what it would have been like to be living in those times, at one of those grand balls, banquets, what have you? well, tonite. I was living it. in a palace originally built in 1786. with waiter in white smock and blue fez
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