quare id faciam?

10/05/2006

Catedral increíble

Via Gordon Anderson: an extraordinary story of one fellow determined to build ... well, something very like a cathedral.

The part of me that identifies with personal, self-submerging ambition to build is stunned. The part of me that respects & feels a certain longing after formal and structural integrity in buildings small & great is – ahhmm – altogether tongue-tied, let's say.

posted by paul bowman @ 12:10 AM

'Quare id faciam' is a bit I snagged, without much thought, from 2 lines of verse likely known to anyone who's had a little Latin in school. I borrowed it years ago, looking for a username no one else would want.

And it grew on me. Taken out of its context, it's altered — the tense blurs & its sense may allow, Why will I do it, or, Why will I make it? — suggestive and intertwining questions, as I take them.

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