In a message dated 1/5/2004 12:14:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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No balance.  Same impulse - to control or possess or leave mark on a building
or site.  Hence blindness among demolishers/preservers to temporal effect of
what they consider permanent good, e.g. "relieve housing crisis" or "save this
building".  Same impulse.  c
Hmmm.  I would've preferred to think our preservation impulses are different
from Their demolition impulses, if only because We are trying to preserve
somebody else's (presumably more historic and significant) piss mark, and They are
trying to leave their own piss mark as a sign of their own significance.

Ralph