It's unfathomable. You can not comprehend it. Try to though. You're a seventeenth century pilgrim who just made it to Rome. Maybe you've seen a few stain glass windows in church, a fresco here and there, but really, you haven't seen too much art. You step inside the Sistine Chapel and behold:
Now fast forward a few hundred years and imagine it's the end of the nineteenth century and you've paid good money to watch some new show. The lights go out and this is what you see:
People were terrified. Some ran out of the room for fear of being ran over by the train.
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