Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/06/13

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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 12/6/2017: Brussels, ugly and beautiful
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 22:15:40 -0500
References: <DB476808-F908-46A6-AFCC-BA93D055B3F8@frozenlight.eu> <9a03445a-4c42-33f9-a9a6-b89cd26da988@iol.ie>
 
> On Jun 13, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> Nathan, nice images of a lovely square. Mind you, it was apparently built 
> with blood money. Having just re-read Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it's 
> hard to reconcile the wonderful gilded architecture with King Leopold's 
> savagery against the Congolese around the same time.

The price of grandiosity and high culture?

fond regards,

George

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