Michael Pollak wrote:
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> Still Joanna's right -- despite those dastardly origins, it's
> magnificent.
Thank you. Yeah. Not that a beautiful park is a higher cause than a successful integrated community, but at least it's a gorgeous public park (except when Cristo's in town) rather than a Target.
I went to see the Alhambra in Grenada some years ago, and I remember being absolutely blown away by its beauty, the most sensually beautiful building I have ever seen & definitely made me revise my notion of what was possible architecturally. And I realized at the time that this too was bought at the price of blood and exploitation and suffering, and yet there seemed to be a difference between it and the Bank of America World Trade Center in SF, where I served as a graveyard shift security guard for two years. Both fortresses in their own way.
Joanna