Submitted by thedogandthefox on Wed, 2006-11-22 07:56.
Now it needs some time of being used, crossed and recrossed, treated a little less reverentially . . . for a few hundred years.
I wonder if the rebuild will be as durable as the tough old one, and how far they've recreared that magic glue that held it together which always seems to me to have been love and stubborness as much as egg white and horse hair.
I wonder what the residents will focus on now that this is, finally, done?
And I had a pang of missing Mostar. my friends and my time there. I've never been anywhere else like it.
bridging the gap
Now it needs some time of being used, crossed and recrossed, treated a little less reverentially . . . for a few hundred years.
I wonder if the rebuild will be as durable as the tough old one, and how far they've recreared that magic glue that held it together which always seems to me to have been love and stubborness as much as egg white and horse hair.
I wonder what the residents will focus on now that this is, finally, done?
And I had a pang of missing Mostar. my friends and my time there. I've never been anywhere else like it.