With love to [personal profile] sara, who will doubtless brain me.

Jun. 6th, 2012 04:38 am
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Whatever may be said in favour of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
Summer Moonshine (1938)


(WRT the architecture-commissioning classes of that and earlier eras I myself have speculated more than once that topiary is *the* unmistakable sign of a people much afflicted with spiritual inbreeding, alcoholism and tertiary syphillis, sometimes all at once, but this does not exclude the possibility of Gothic Revival being in the same symptom cluster... )

Via some fabulous person on my friendslist (curse this reading on the phone; no good will come of it), the
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Date: 2012-06-07 06:17 pm (UTC)
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What you get in Manchester, as I have mentioned before, is what is clearly gargoyle envy: "I know you put yard long gargoyles on Obediah Shuttleworth's mill. Make mine 3 ft six."

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