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Thread #99722 Message #1996214
Posted By: Charley Noble
14-Mar-07 - 07:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Building Inspectors, A--HOLES OR WHAT.
Subject: RE: BS: Building Inspectors, A--HOLES OR WHAT.
McGrath and Bob-
"Measure for measure" about sums it up!
Another early musing on the question of less than scrupulous builders and architects is revealed here (quoting from my manuscript):
What new householder hasn't expressed sentiments similar to those of Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. to 65 A.D.) bitterly lamenting the state of the art in the building industry:
Life is the gift of the immortal gods, living well is the gift of philosophy. Was it philosophy that erected all the towering tenements, so dangerous to the persons who dwell in them? Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.