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<And why are interiors not designated in NYC? I was despondent after
visiting the lavishly carved oak boardrooms (not BED rooms - leave that
to Twybil & Gracie Mansion) of JD Rockefeller after witnessing where the
contemporary junk bond traders, recently vacated en masse, had drilled
holes through and through oak leaf & acorns willy nilly in order to
route their computer data cables.<

How many holes does it take to fill the Rockefeller boardroom?

Reminds me of the summer I did Shakespeare at Stan Hywet hall in Akron. The
Tudor mansion built with the Sieberling fortune had wonderful built-up
baseboards and crown molding in the rooms we were using for dressing rooms.
Even then in those early years before I knew I would become a
conservationteer I was distressed to see the 1/2" Centrex telephone cables
stabled directly to those ornate moldings.

There a certain virus that comes with the trappings of technology. It's in
spools of Centrex cables and the cabs of bulldozers and trackhoes. It causes
a kind of selective blindness. In Mississippi we learned the virus feeds is
sustained by sardines.

Rudy

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