ROOM 1
Showcase 7
From Colombo to Kandy, 6 January
We do not know how and where in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Franz Ferdinand acquired these objects. All are very typical for the island.
There is an old legend that Ceylon was once the location of paradise, that Adam and Eve could have tarried here before the Fall. If this was so, then our ancestors enjoyed a truly heavenly sojourn. One who has seen Ceylon understands the whole enormity of the culpability in the wicked game with the apple. This island, adorned with the incomparable allures and wonders of tropical nature, inexhaustible in delightful pictures, blessed through unebbing generative power, to know it lost to all humankind for an apple! ...