scragglers

It is pathetic enough that a whitewashed castle, with turrets and things, should ever have been built in this otherwise honorable place. But it is much more pathetic to see this architectual falsehood undergoing restoration when it would have been so easy to let dynamite finish what a charitable fire began."

Said by none other than Mark Twain, after the old state capitol was occupied and burned by Union troops in the 1800's. He also was quoted as calling it a "monstrosity" and the"ugliest" building on the Mississippi. I think it's pretty wicked, but I'm no literary genius...


This one is a few months old, but I never posted it. I guess I like it more now than I did then.