East/West Axis
The main temple is laid out on an East/West axis, entered via a quay (now dry and several hundred metres from the Nile).
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Famous quotes containing the words east, west and/or axis:
“Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“Every man is in a state of conflict, owing to his attempt to reconcile himself and his relationship with life to his conception of harmony. This conflict makes his soul a battlefield, where the forces that wish this reconciliation fight those that do not and reject the alternative solutions they offer. Works of art are attempts to fight out this conflict in the imaginative world.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“He is the essence that inquires.
He is the axis of the star;
He is the sparkle of the spar;
He is the heart of every creature;
He is the meaning of each feature;
And his mind is the sky,
Than all it holds more deep, more high.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)