[Leica] Nathan's PAD 12/6/2017: Brussels, ugly and beautiful

George Lottermoser george.imagist at icloud.com
Tue Jun 13 20:15:40 PDT 2017


> On Jun 13, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> Nathan, nice images of a lovely square. Mind you, it was apparently built with blood money. Having just re-read Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it's hard to reconcile the wonderful gilded architecture with King Leopold's savagery against the Congolese around the same time.

The price of grandiosity and high culture?

fond regards,

George

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