Quebec Old City fire

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Sportsdude

Apr 05 08 11:27




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"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Michel

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Apr 05 08 11:45
     

Gopher

#2
Apr 05 08 11:50
How do you juudge Louis Riel, Michel?
A fool's paradise is better than none.

P.C.

#3
Apr 05 08 11:59
That is heartbreaking.  What a gorgeous piece of architecture !!!!

  add*  In a warped kind of way, the first pic of it ablaze is oddly beautiful.  
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Gopher

#4
Apr 05 08 12:03
Yes. For some reason it makes me think of the fire at Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

P.C.

#5
Apr 05 08 12:07
So sad to see buildings like that disappear.  The new architecture....although some of it is lovely in its own right....just totally lacks in craftsmanship, charm and style like these.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Gopher

#6
Apr 05 08 12:09
Oh I agree so much with you, PC.  Functional seems to be all nowadays ; another instance of the poetic being submerged beneath the prosiac.  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

#7
Apr 05 08 12:15
 well that's post-modernism for yeah. bland and boring. I don't know if we'll see another 'revival' period.

add: on some university campuses that were built in 'gothic' style. Any new building is built in the same style. So gothic does live on, albeit, barely.
 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Michel

#8
Apr 05 08 12:19
     

Michel

#9
Apr 05 08 12:49
     

Lil Me

#10
Apr 05 08 12:53
What about Maurice Duplessis, Maurice Richard, Corey Hart? lol  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Michel

#11
Apr 05 08 01:01
     

Lil Me

#12
Apr 05 08 01:38
Better not say that. The secret police will take away your Maple Tree Licence.    
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Sportsdude

#13
Apr 05 08 01:47
as long as the rcmp knocking with tasers...  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

#14
Apr 06 08 10:51
I agree with you entirely about Riel and Dumont, Michel.
A fool's paradise is better than none.
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