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The overhead lie you forget exists until something leaks through it.
means The upper interior surface of a room, overhead and usually flat.
from From Middle English 'celing,' tied to the verb 'ceil' meaning to line or panel the inside of a room — itself from Old French 'celer,' to conceal or cover, from Latin 'caelare,' to carve or engrave (and possibly blurred with 'caelum,' the sky). So the word carries the sense of a covering laid overhead, a lining that hides what's above. The modern spelling, with its odd 'ei,' is a later tidying; the older 'ciel' still survives in French as the word for sky.
- sistine
- Michelangelo painted his masterpiece while standing, not lying down
- glass version
- Coined in 1978 to describe invisible career limits
- acoustic tiles
- Designed to hide pipes and swallow your footsteps above
- vaulted
- Curved ceilings trick the brain into feeling freer
- the sky
- Earth's true ceiling sits about 62 miles up
sistine chapel ceiling — michelangelo's frescoed masterpiece painted 1508-1512 in vatican city
guggenheim museum rotunda — frank lloyd wright's oculus skylight opening at top of spiral, completed 1959 new york