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Jimm Roberts's avatar

I share your frustration with the loss of elegance. I've often wondered why.

Is it not enough money; or rejection of the past by every generation's avant guarde, or the ever rapid pace of life? All? Other?

I am an antiquarian. I am enthralled by the past and its remnants, especially 18th and 19th furniture and art.

And I admire those who crafted what I now see featured for viewing in museums and for sale at antique shows.

But I also admire my predecessors. The lives they lived were brutal, dirty and short. Yet their legacies of achievement endure.

Among the newest of these legacies is the Golden Gate Bridge. You were fortunate to have been one of the engineers who helped sturdy it for use and admiration by future generations

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Atanu Dey's avatar

A delightful read. I had not read it the first time you posted it. Thanks for reposting.

I learned something new.

"Now, like kudzu or cancer, they’re malignant growths…enveloping cities they seem determined to destroy."

I looked up "kudzu". That took me to a Smithsonian Magazine article: "The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South -- A naturalist cuts through the myths surrounding the invasive plant."

Cheers.

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