tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936855.post113387639287264543..comments2023-10-09T05:27:59.888-04:00Comments on Why Won't You Grow?!: Rot in PeaceDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02587995461067202017noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936855.post-1133882461703997952005-12-06T10:21:00.000-05:002005-12-06T10:21:00.000-05:00This isn't the 'history' of Great Men, famous batt...This isn't the 'history' of Great Men, famous battles, documents, and cathedrals, as recorded by the victors and fed to the masses for their edification, so it won't get funded. Although Caitlin DeSilvey does romanticize it a bit (The transience of human ambition is etched out in lichen on the iron of the former shaft works...), she raises some valid questions about the relative merits of restoring, preserving, removing, recording, observing, and letting things decay. Maybe the main question is when and where it's appropriate to do each of those 'histories'. Or we could convert them into gift shoppes.Sven Gollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545633059051707884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936855.post-1133876761535602112005-12-06T08:46:00.000-05:002005-12-06T08:46:00.000-05:00Okay, I admit that my initial reaction was too has...Okay, I admit that my initial reaction was too hasty.<BR/><BR/>I should read the full essay before making a judgement.<BR/><BR/>There are some intersting things stated in this piece.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02587995461067202017noreply@blogger.com