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From last week: photos of Louisiana’s capitol buildings, old (left) and new. I far and away prefer the first one, even though many found/find it atrocious–including Mark Twain, who, upon seeing it restored after a fire in the late 19th century, said:
It is pathetic enough that a whitewashed castle, with turrets and things, should ever have been built in this otherwise honorable place. But it is much more pathetic to see this architectual falsehood undergoing restoration when it would have been so easy to let dynamite finish what a charitable fire began.
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