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Izzat the Taj Mahoney?
Indeed it is. Dementia hasn’t gotten the better of you yet!
I account the Taj Mahoney, taken as a whole, a failed experiment in art and architecture — but John Nava’s tapestries succeed.
I get either angry or sad every time I drive by, depending. Then I begin to think how a genius architect might remodel the thing – short of razing it – to make it into something like what it might have been. The tapestries are indeed remarkable.
Yeah, it’s hard to imagine that building remaining more or less as-is for decades, let alone centuries. I share your daydream; what that pile needs is some theology and geometry.
No gambling.
Pascal’s Wager won’t cut it.
Render unto Caesar.
I really just come here for the tags.
The rest is kommentary.
How about gold fish?
Fair game.
Excellent for a reenactment of casting out the nets.