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And opening the window of the cell, he pointed to the immense church of Notre-Dame, whose black silhouette, with its twin towers, its ribs of stone and its monstrous cruppers, stood out against the starlit sky like an enormous two-headed sphinx sitting in the midst of the town.
— Jan 26, 2026 04:36AM
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It meant: printing will kill architecture [...] The Bible resembles the Pyramids, the Iliad the Parthenon, Homer Phidias. Dante in the thirteenth century was the last Romanesque church, Shakespeare in the sixteenth the last Gothic cathedral.
— Jan 26, 2026 04:34AM

