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To: Neeka who wrote (173836)	1/25/2009 6:11:46 PM
From: SmoothSail	Respond to of 225578

You'll enjoy the new one just as much as Pillars. It's the same cathedral just a century or 2 later.

To: Neeka who wrote (173836)	1/25/2009 6:39:14 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 225578

The book I'm currently reading, "Rabble in Arms" by Kenneth Roberts, describes action in the early part of our Revolutionary War, set in country between Albany to Lake Champlain and Montreal. He tells of how the forests around Ticonderoga were leveled to build the first ships of the US Navy, under orders from Benedict Arnold. The suffering they endured is indescribable. Your interest in stories about cathedrals that took centuries to build brought to mind a passage from that book, something like: "Nothing can stop or defeat determined men." It must have taken similar determination to build those cathedrals, or Stonehenge, or the Pyramids. Human beings are so amazing, and at once so disappointing. I'll never understand them. Dogs can't build cathedrals or ships but at least they return love with love. I wish people were more like dogs.