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To: VanDeKoik

Let’s see what the critics thought of the Eiffel Tower when it was built, shall we?

“A half-built factory pipe, a carcass waiting to be fleshed out with freestone or brick, a funnel-shaped grill, a hole-riddled suppository”

—Joris-Karl Huysmans

“This high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant ungainly skeleton upon a base that looks built to carry a colossal monument of Cyclops, but which just peters out into a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney”

—Guy de Maupassant

“This mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed”

—François Coppée


10 posted on 06/30/2017 2:14:39 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Your point being?


15 posted on 06/30/2017 2:24:18 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: SoCal Pubbie

LOL funny you should bring that up. I think the tower is hideous.


58 posted on 06/30/2017 5:22:57 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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