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Old Posted Feb 12, 2013, 5:23 PM
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Originally Posted by MolsonExport View Post
Been said a million times, and at least 1000 times by me already, but how could they? How fucking could they?

Reminds me of what I learned in Paris last summer: apparently after the revolution, Notre-Dame Cathedral was supposed to be flattened, but since they were too busy cutting off people's heads, things got delayed, and eventually saner heads prevailed.

Goddammit, (brings to mind the following) to think that de Corbusier felt that Paris needed to be remade as such:

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