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Re: OK, I'm going to ask nicely just one more time... (white brick)
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Lawrence Kestenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
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The listserv where the buildings do the talking <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 May 2008 10:12:02 -0400
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Hammarberg, Eric
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> I dunno, the Chrysler Building has similar/same brick. All the patterning on
> Chrysler is mostly lightly speckled white, with heavily speckled white/gray
> and solid black brick with Cherokee White Marble and Black Emerald Pearl
> Granite accents. The difference between the lightly speckled and plain
> white, to my eyes anyway, is a livelier facade. The plain colored glaze
> brick usually looks dull and lifeless (regardless of color) like the dull
> thud of a mallet on dead terra cotta compared to the pleasant ring of good
> terra cotta. Weird analogy but Raushenberg (sp?) just died so...

Agreed -- like a salad with three different leaves tastes better than
a lettuce-only salad.

                                                 Larry

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