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Cloudbringer · 03-02-2001, 07:26 PM

LoA- hop a concorde...I want it NOW!

LadyWendy: Good thing you found out now and not later, is all I can say! Water damage (shudder) is the worst thing imaginable! So sorry it means you have to keep looking, but I figure that only means something better is out there waiting for you! Uh, I hope nothing crawled out of there with you...sounds like Mold Central (waaaaaachooo...allergies acting up in sympathy!

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Yorick, I know how it was in Russia. Hideous. In St. Petersburg (then known as Leningrad) they took a glorious cathedral and turned it into a museum of atheism, as a means of controlling the locals. When I was there the first time I had many Jewish friends. Several were what is known as 'refusniks', because they'd been refused exit visas for Israel and other points west (and socially/economically disenfranchised for daring to ask). They told me of persecution outside synagogues and of the destruction of priceless art, tapestries and religious items in those synagogues by gangs of hoodlums being paid under the table by the government. I saw what communism did for the Andrei Rublev icons in the chapels in Red Square. Still makes me want to cry. In that case it was neglect, pure and simple. Only much later on did they realize they could capitalize on the art for tourism and western currency and then they started restoring the icons, but it was far to late for some of them.

Ok, off the soap box...sorry 'bout that.

LoA: Maybe I'll have to head South to your place...that bad foot of yours and all!

Cloudy

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Storm-Queen aka The Purple Rose of the Knight

[This message has been edited by Cloudbringer (edited 03-02-2001).]

03-02-2001, 07:26 PM	#30
Cloudbringer Ironworks Moderator Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Upstate NY USA Posts: 19,737	LoA- hop a concorde...I want it NOW! LadyWendy: Good thing you found out now and not later, is all I can say! Water damage (shudder) is the worst thing imaginable! So sorry it means you have to keep looking, but I figure that only means something better is out there waiting for you! Uh, I hope nothing crawled out of there with you...sounds like Mold Central (waaaaaachooo...allergies acting up in sympathy! ). Yorick, I know how it was in Russia. Hideous. In St. Petersburg (then known as Leningrad) they took a glorious cathedral and turned it into a museum of atheism, as a means of controlling the locals. When I was there the first time I had many Jewish friends. Several were what is known as 'refusniks', because they'd been refused exit visas for Israel and other points west (and socially/economically disenfranchised for daring to ask). They told me of persecution outside synagogues and of the destruction of priceless art, tapestries and religious items in those synagogues by gangs of hoodlums being paid under the table by the government. I saw what communism did for the Andrei Rublev icons in the chapels in Red Square. Still makes me want to cry. In that case it was neglect, pure and simple. Only much later on did they realize they could capitalize on the art for tourism and western currency and then they started restoring the icons, but it was far to late for some of them. Ok, off the soap box...sorry 'bout that. LoA: Maybe I'll have to head South to your place...that bad foot of yours and all! Cloudy ------------------ Storm-Queen aka The Purple Rose of the Knight [This message has been edited by Cloudbringer (edited 03-02-2001).]