House Triangle — Attraction in Washington

Standing on the illustrious steps of the Capitol, I gazed into the distance and thought I saw Constable on the horizon, in the distance. The love that could never have been flooded my soul and poured out my eyeballs, tossing me wretched onto the steps that elder men in tuxedos and flag pins jogged up so nonchalantly. But Constable was not there - he was but a mirage glimpsed through the murky fog of mine own teary sobs.

"Sir, are you all right?"

Alas is a lady who lacks naught; alack, there is alas not a lady who ought lack what she may not find, I replied. He had long since walked away to warn the security guard that she had a handful on her little palms that day.

But as the sun rises on democracy in this great republic and reveals it to be a mighty oligarchy, so does the oak. I have been hiding my nature too long behind the facade of morality.

In the name of God and country, I am a racially ambiguous gay white man. And I am proud to be an American.

The last thing Constable said to me rang in my head and my loins, in that order -

Fear is a funny thing. It creeps up on You with the confidence of ivy on Brick, that bricks were dead long ago and have Long lost their bodies, so it grows upon Their crumbling edges and leans against the Mortar that clung to their sides and it will Change them. It will rearrange their cravings Into requiem, fray their nerves until Even the shock that screams they're alive when It hits cannot save them from death again.

Constable is, of...

Washington, D.C. is a planned city. In 1791, President Washington commissioned Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, a French-born architect and city planner, to design the new capital. He enlisted Scottish surveyor Alexander Ralston to help lay out the city plan. The L'Enfant Plan featured broad streets and avenues radiating out from rectangles, providing room for open space and landscaping. He based his design on plans of cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Karlsruhe, and Milan that Thomas Jefferson had sent to him. L'Enfant's design also envisioned a garden-lined "grand avenue" approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) in length and 400 feet (120 m) wide in the area that is now the National Mall. President Washington dismissed L'Enfant in March 1792 due to conflicts with the three commissioners appointed to supervise the capital's construction. Andrew Ellicott, who had worked with L'Enfant surveying the city, was then tasked with completing the design. Though Ellicott made revisions to the original plans—including changes to some street patterns—L'Enfant is still credited with the overall design...

Beautiful building with a fantastic history. The architecture stunning. However it seems to have an infestation of rats and snakes being funded by foreign and special interest groups. These rats and snakes do not represent the people and only care about personal...