Eighty-six years in the making, one of the world's largest sundials has finally been installed at Place de la Concorde, as part of the Year 2000 festivities of the City of Paris. It takes an approach more cerebral than celebratory. The sundial's pointer, or gnomon, is the 109-foot Obelisk of Luxor. Its base is the northern half of Place de la Concorde. Rose Marie Burke, Sundial Aids Millennium Countdown, The Wall Street Journal, Oct 26, 1999.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.