Of books, business, and cathedrals
[ by Charles Cameron — who knows more or less what Walter Robb of WholeFoods was getting at, but doesn’t think it adequately sums to what cathedrals have to offer ]
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This tweet by friend Victor d’Allant frankly saddened me…
Business is a cathedral for the human spirit ~ @WholeFoods CEO Walter Robb to @BerkeleyHaas prof @LauraDTyson pic.twitter.com/FNTztbTWEt
— Victor d'Allant (@dallant) March 19, 2015
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Until redeemed by the comment at the tail end of this BBC report:
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Okay, then.
To support the crowdfunding effort to save the “temple of books that raises reading to a religious experience” — figure this out: Dominicanen gaat door!
April 11th, 2015 at 12:08 am
So great structure and culture, position not so great?
Do you think there is enough substance in the virtual world to sustain it?
If there is that is pretty impressive in itself.
April 12th, 2015 at 7:53 am
It might be a perverse joy to search for ’50 shades’ at a place like this.
A chapel which is re-purposed without becoming yet another museum or declining into obvious frivolity, is hosting ‘Mare Nostrum’:
http://gizmodo.com/293608/marenostrum-the-worlds-most-gorgeous-super-computer
One might wonder what Stanislav Lem had made of this.