11.07.2005

gentrification

Paris brûle-t-il?? No, it is the suburbs. La Cité Lumière has lost it's taste for revolution.

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Maybe suburb is a bad choice to translate - too many apartmentent houses? projects?

11.06.2005

fit to serve

From the Atlantic
Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life, and if he were alive today, his condition would be treated as a "character issue"—that is, as a political liability. His condition was indeed a character issue: it gave him the tools to save the nation

Due to his depression he could see the objective reality with a clearer eye. Maybe I know something on this?

ancient masonry

A collapse I don't need to investigate. Even roman mortar is mortal


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