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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 00:27:25 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Bruce MacDonald

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   I felt some similar nostalgic tugging when they tore down Macalester’s music building. It was overdue for demolition even when I was a student 20 years earlier, and it was really an armpit — but it was the armpit where I discovered Chopin.

   But damn, the new place is so, so much nicer. And happily it still has many of the same beat-up pianos I played. I now find I appreciate the rebuild, as it preserves my past as memory alone, unblemished by reality.

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     Bruce MacDonald (rationaldoge@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 00:27:26 JST Bruce MacDonald

     So long (eventually) to the place where I learned about William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and Charles Dickens.

     Hard to find the entrance to the Humanities Building but it didn't take long to find your way around.

     Always thought it was a quintessential modern university building because it was kinda funny looking.

     The columns, especially, look like they fall short of a safe slenderness ratio.

     But I was a journalism student not an engineering student so I didn't mind.
     https://madison.com/opinion/editorial/our-view-tear-down-ugly-failing-monstrosity-in-heart-of-uw-madison-campus/article_cc7bfcd0-616a-11ef-9602-5b3a5948e30c.html#tracking-source=home-top-story