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A spiral immediately attracts our eyes.

It can be the epitome of what we unconsciously recognize as beautiful.

Especially when it winds according to the rules of the golden ratio, as nature inscribes it in the mother-of-pearl bowls of the Nautilus and mathematics describes it with the Fibonacci sequence.

Here at the end of the handrail of a banister, the spiral does not fit into this harmonious relationship.

And the steps hardly lead up so gracefully that the stair researcher Friedrich Mielke would have identified the “queen of architecture” in this staircase.

But still: The picture by Reuters photographer Joshua Roberts lends spiral eddies, curvatures and steps the compositional framework that stimulates our optic nerve right away.

With a second look we are captured by the uncanny reality of the picture.

Soldiers of the National Guard of the United States of America have settled in the interior of a curved staircase (which architects don't call their eye for nothing).

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They are lying down, resting and sleeping all over the Capitol at the moment, here at the feet of a bust of the founding father and first President of the United States, George Washington.

Their camouflage uniform is perfectly adapted to the greenish-beige-colored limestone slabs on which they lie.

From a frontal perspective.

National guards around Washington bust

Source: AFP

You and 15,000 other comrades have been called in to protect the American Congress building in Donald Trump's final days.

The elected president, against whom the second impeachment proceedings have just been initiated, is trusted to do nothing less than to instigate another storm to introduce his successor Joe Biden, as on January 6th, when a rebellious mob answered his call and invaded the house.

In the eye of a storm that is also spiraling at least in meteorological dimensions, it is known to be quiet.

The National Guards, whom we see as if from a bird's eye view, may not have chosen the most comfortable, but a particularly symbolic place to prepare for January 20th,

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This text is from WELT AM SONNTAG.

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Source: WELT AM SONNTAG