Alexi Worth's allegorically ingenious painting "Arizona" offers a God's-eye view down on a canopy of silvery fig leaves through which a hand is reaching up to pluck one of three green fruits.
One member of my expedition, as our great-grandfathers would have written, does insist that Rome is best understood not as old New York but as an ancient Los Angeles — what with its relative proximity to the ocean, its ascent up into the hills, the long view down on its spread-out evening glitter.
As we reached the checkpoint we were treated to a fine view down to the final camp on the shore of the deep-blue waters of Sayram Lake hundreds of metres below, a favourite haunt of Mongol ruler Genghis Khan.
"But there's a delicate beauty to it, some stunning views looking down on downtown Seoul, as well as intriguing bits and pieces of modern Korean history".
The dancers offered a multitude of views (jotted down on their arms, lest they forget), that included, among other thoughts, that "it is better to live in Chelsea and have a small dog," or "hold an awkward position for as long as possible," or "kiss somebody for the very last time".
And I'll wager, from the depth of my conviction, that from God's point of view, looking down on Chernobyl and the rest of the world, he sees one family.
A SLIGHTLY sinister spinal cord displayed in his scenic office -- Dr. Gotlin has a view straight down on Gracie Mansion -- silently advertises his line of work.
"From a statistical point of view, cutting down on foreign students has a more immediate and visible effect, as opposed to family migration, for instance," said Serge Slama, an assistant professor at the University of Evry-Val d'Essonne, south of Paris.
There was the vertigo-inducing view straight down on the ballpark from the 34th floor of the nearby Broderick Tower, which is being converted into a luxury apartment building.
It arose from the discovery -- perhaps by the Chinese in the fifth century B.C. -- that a pinhole in a darkened room can project an outside view upside down on an opposite wall.
