I don't have to go east to find that sort of stuff.  Wouldn't cross the
street to see that sort of stuff...maybe to harass the folks working
with it, but not to observe the activity.  Oil on canvas, wood cut with
a saw, bricks with mortar and stone without, got any windmills you'd
like to see me poke a few holes in?

-jc

On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 01:42  PM, Ken Follett wrote:

> I'd rather see a stone mason working with stone...
>
> John john john... you should come East once in a while and check out
> the modern building scene, like Debcaves enduring NJ... carpenters out
> here in the sophisticated corridor use steel stud, timber framers use
> foam sticks, bricklayers use fast-setting bricks, slaters use plastic
> slate, and a stonemason worth their weight use fancy flashlights.
> Everyone is working their ass off and if not mortgaged then hocked up
> to their nubbies with the re-insurance company. In this fast paced
> world who has time for real wood and stone? ][<
>