Hard Rock from Amsterdam

[Tomas Lipps <tmlipps@zzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Bill, I hasten to write and remove the remorse you are feeling at
having offended me.  I know this remorse as I have a sometimes
unfortunate tendency to say things I later wish I hadn't -then the
inevitable regret.  which grows if the offended party doesn't
respond.  hence this -before I even have my morning tea.

not to worry, I'm not offended, and anyway, I had one coming for my
put-down of ulrich the stodgy. anyway (a word I use too much) you
spoke as you say "deep sense of familiarity and trust."  I should
feel complimented. I DO feel complemented.   no, the thing I like
about scheefel is his use of natural stone in a structural way.
remember, I'm a stonemason.  not only that but a traditional
stonemason, and an advocate, a vociferous one, for STRUCTURAL
stonework as opposed to veneer.  but then you've probably read about
that in the magazine.  maybe not.  so I'm thrilled when I see someone
doing something like this, at that scale and in public.  I must say
that I don't like all of his stuff. in fact the one I liked best
wasn't in the links you just sent, so I guess I'll have to go looking
or it -it was an augmented trilithon, yet another large lintel and
post.  I also like that  assemblage of rocks that looked like a
passage grave before it was embedded in earth, but not sure it was
his.

"monomaniacal or tyrannical?"  monomaniacal, yes, certainly.  and the
three dicks and fat lady is with its height somewhat tyrannical.  it
certainly lords it over the landscape.  but there's something that
harkens back, yes, to the old Stone Age.  and one's youth, this one
anyway, when I delighted in playing with rocks and blocks.
ridiculously muscular? yes it is.  athletic, a massive feat of
balance.  and no steel rods needed (though perhaps they were used).

now it's time for that tea.

p.s. whatever program the "lithical skinny"  and "marble fruit"
images were in, I wasn't able to open them