Glimpses of a City


6.

Inside the government building is a grand gallery lined with pillars. Where each pillar meets the arches of the ceiling, there is a carving of a head. Were you more familiar with the history of the country, you would be able to identify all but one of these heads as the likenesses of great leaders of the past. The remaining head, the tour guide tells you, belongs to the stone mason responsible for carving the entire gallery, angry that he had not been paid on time.