The procrastinating student proposes (partly quoting Hugh Hardy):

> preservation "enriches our understanding of ourselves".

Here's an unpopular concept:  "Preservation is not holy, not enriching, not
ecological, not correct - it is just another architectural style."

I forget who said that - I think it was a very old man - he must be dead by
now.
(But didn't Jefferson say that the hardest thing in the world to design was an
alteration to an existing building?)

Signed,  Christopher Gray