OK, I haven't been keeping up on this thread
(busybusybusy), but I assume you're talking about the Old Man. Why is it
big news that Washington's nose needs maintenance - a manmade change to a rock
formation, but most people have never heard of the Old Man so it doesn't become
news until he's gone?
Maybe I'm just slow, but isn't a good
thing that people realize that some beloved stuff goes away no matter what you
do, and that some stuff goes away because of what isn't done? I'm not claiming
that this rock formation could have or should have been maintained, only that
other things will disappear if they are not maintained, and its good that
people who love stuff understand that its all temporal.
Sure a
hooligraphic restoration would be cool. But I'd leave that to those hooligans
with hooligraphic skills. I'd rather see a stone mason working with
stone...unless he's still sore from building chimneys, in which case it would
be nice to seem him teaching and supervising.
-jc
(Name that
mood?! I can't.)
On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Ken
Follett wrote:
Holographic restoration is
what we need for the old man. A grand light show with artificial snow and an
outcropping of those fake conifers that hide
cells.