The design of this project strikes me as hauntingly beautiful and thoughtful while so much of this story strikes me as odd, so very odd, like it's happening is some strange alien place, some foreign country or something. Breivik was sentenced to 21 years for killing 77 people. Gauche as it is calculating 1 year for each 3.6 children killed, still wouldn't life until he's dead dead dead be a minimum amount considered? How is it justice the man still lives and breathes? What sanctimony is served by that? Secondly, isn't it odd turning a site of national horror into a tourist attraction? Exquisite apart from those two things.
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I like the memorial idea.
21 years in prison after slaughtering 77? How European.
AA--"our" AA--beat me to it. :)
How European indeed..
Virgil :)
Chip:
"What sanctimony is served by that?"
Western Civilization contains the seeds of its own destruction. Europe has been through more war and horror than the US, and has pussified at a much faster rate.
Very original, and striking. I like it too, although I would have gone with a more developed shape to the cut.
As to the 21 years: embarrassing, insulting, and disrespectful of innocence and life to an astounding magnitude. It's not possible to punish him appropriate to the crime, but that does not let us off the hook to at least try.
Note to self: Bring Victim to Norway - then terminate with extreme prejudice.
On the plus side, he was at least found guilty. Cf: OJ Simpson.
This seems to be a NW European disease. Vandergraft killed a famous Dutch Politician in 2002, and got.....18 years.
You'd think Dutch lawmakers would be a little upset at that uh..precedent. But nope.
I was visually reminded of the Corinth Canal, begun in ancient times but only completed in the late 19th century.
I never heard of that Corinth Canal before. Muy interesante.
The memorial reminded me of the Freeman's impressive cut stone as depicted in the movie Dune. Large hallways cut with laser precision through the hardest of hard rock. I vaguely recall in the book some emphasis on describing this, the startling dichotomy between primitive outback appearance and technological éclat. Paul Atreides thinks, "Hmm, a laser."
Very powerful. I wonder where the entrance to the viewing spot inside the cut is? Come in and stare at the arm of this island that you can't reach, made sacred by its emptiness.
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