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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Ian Hamilton Finlay
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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