Louvre Museum

Okay.

That's the, um, pyramid at the Louvre?

Yeah, the food pyramid

No, it's just a glass pyramid.

[laughs]

... doo-di-doo-da.

Can we talk about our itinerary? Because I really wanna go to the Louvre.

Don't say it like that.

I want to show them everything.

Yes, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Sacré-Cœur, and the bespoke museums, Rodin and Picasso, that were my haunts when I lived here with Skyler in 1990.

But more, I want them to discover the wonders that don't appear on any map.

The parishes behind the church, the original editions tucked in dusty shelves, the internal courtyards, the sketches, the old, the true.

And I think that when you turn to AI, when you turn to robots, uh, when you take the human element out of the equation, these games, these experiences, they can become a lot less special.

Talking about Parisian buildings, you know, are we gonna start hanging AI art in the Louvre? You know [chuckles], is that gonna be hanging there next to the Mona Lisa? I certainly hope not, but, you know, the way we're going, who knows? That human touch is so important in any kind of creative work.

You know, we all have something to say, some opinion on the world, some insight into the human experience or sports or whatever.

You know, we look at a lot of the ratings in NBA 2K that are awry, especially with the historical teams, and we talk about how they're based on spreadsheets.

My favorite museum.

I mean, I'm probably going to be very cliche, but I do love the Louvre.

Hey, nothing wrong with

that.

Yes.

I think something I talk about often about Paris, what I love about Paris is the way that it lays out its landmarks because you can see them from afar.

Like, for example, when you're at the museum, the Louvre, from its grounds, you can see the Eiffel Tower.

And you can see other features.

The more he burrowed his way into Egyptology, the more impressed he became by the vast field which had opened to the Enquirer, and by the extreme importance of a subject which promised to throw light upon the first germs of human civilization, and the origin of the greater part of our arts and sciences.

so struck was mr smith that he straightway married an egyptological young lady who had written upon the sixth dynasty and having thus secured a sound base of operations he set himself to collect materials for a work which should unite the research of lepsius and the ingenuity of champollion the preparation of his magnum opus entailed many hurried visits to the magnificent egyptian collections of the louvre upon the last of which no longer ago than the middle of last october he became involved in a most strange and noteworthy adventure the trains had been slow and the channel had been rough so that the student arrived in paris in a somewhat befogged and feverish condition On reaching the Hotel de France, in the Rue Lafitte, he had thrown himself upon a sofa for a couple of hours, but, finding that he was unable to sleep, he determined, in spite of his fatigue, to make his way to the Louvre, settle the point which he had come to decide, and take the evening train back to Dieppe.

Having come to his conclusion, he donned his greatcoat, for it was a raw rainy day, and made his way across the Boulevard des Italiens and down the Avenue de l'Opera.

Once in the Louvre he was on familiar ground, and he speedily made his way to the collection of papyri, which it was his intention to consult.

The warmest admirers of John Van Zittart Smith could hardly claim for him that he was a handsome man.

His high-beaked nose and prominent chin had something of the same acute and incisive character which distinguished his intellect.

"'Yes,' said another voice, "'he really is an extraordinary fellow.' "'Do you know,' said the first speaker, "'one could almost believe that by the continual contemplation of mummies the chap had become half a mummy himself.' He certainly has an Egyptian cast of countenance," said the other.

John Van Zittart Smith spun round upon his heel, with the intention of shaming his countryman by a corrosive remark or two.

These praises were not lost on the Canadian.

Though born and educated amidst the snows and forests of the St. Lawrence, he had wandered through the galleries of the Louvre, where all those chefs-d'oeuvre were assembled, which after the fall of Napoleon were restored to the cities that bemoaned them, and a natural taste for the beautiful had made him a lover of the arts.

The winter sun was declining and the guests arose to depart.

A small present of music was laid upon her piano and accepted by Eidomen.

Not a gleam of beauty was ever lost on Eidomen, though born amid Puritans in a retired village of the New World.

The charms of everything I had seen seemed concentrated and enhanced in him who then stood before me.

Even you, my friend, educated as you have been amid the paintings and statues of Europe, you who have wandered through the Louvre and Vatican and seen the chef-d'oeuvre of Florence, even you, my friend, expressed wonder when you looked upon him first at P-D.

Five years had passed away since that interview.

But, you know, really, the whole concept of rope dropping could apply to any popular attraction you attend.

whether it be the Vatican or the Colosseum or the Louvre, anything like that, you know, the idea of rope drop works.

But that idea essentially is just getting to the park or the attraction before it opens.

And even perhaps a half hour, 45 minutes, even an hour, although I don't usually do that, an hour before it opens works.

You're ahead of the crowds.

So again, a highly recommended activity or a highly recommended strategy for attending a theme park in particular.

But for any attraction, you know, if you're rope dropping the Louvre and you're in there right at the beginning of the day...

You're going to be encountering lower crowds.

Mark lowered his voice to add, I read somewhere that Catherine allowed the brothers Orloff no less than fifty thousand rubles pajama money.

Fifty thousand! One can buy a powerful lot of nighties for that much money, even at the Louvre across the way.

There's the Britannica, continued Mark, jumping up.

He found a paragraph under the caption of Elizabeth that tickled him immensely.

I post regularly about it in you know the way that we communicate becomes very generic i hate within our industry the words curate intentional and quiet no one travels intentionally if they didn't then what are they traveling accidentally and various other things so there are areas with ai that still become annoying but overall the actual usage of it to confirm trips people have to be very careful know when you book a trip now you can put in and it will build out an itinerary for you but there are many nuances i've just come back from thailand i use my chat gpt astra as i've affectionately named her and she has a huge amount of information within her for travel planning and things like that because i utilize her for work and some of the recommendations were very good and some of the things were out of date or the days that they had suggested it didn't work For example, a client this summer had sent us an itinerary in Paris with various museums and gallery openings and trying to fit quite a lot in and with a short amount of time.

ChatGPT basically built out an itinerary and the moment we look at it, the Louvre opens late on a Tuesday, but not on a Thursday and things like that.

And it didn't actually pick up that information.

Once you dive in with ChatGPT and things like that, it will do, but you have to prompt it and prompt it.