tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post8123368728751404032..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: watchtower, whatbloodyeverUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-2207853986092505572013-05-21T13:47:56.150+10:002013-05-21T13:47:56.150+10:00We didn't see it in the daylight so I can'...We didn't see it in the daylight so I can't say. We saw it at night when the white lights were on the steeples and that's why it looked so much like Sleeping Beauty's Castle, four peaks of unnatural cleanliness; and a golden angel on one spire was either blowing a trumpet or looking at the mountains through a telescope. Long object against its face. The written descriptions said that this figure is an angel named Moroni whose business is to signal the second coming of Christ, so either trumpet or telescope would work. <br /><br />It looked like an earnest person's idea of a Gothic cathedral. All lines going up. Nothing experimental except a golden window. The foundations foursquare and solid.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-12887300427460214062013-05-21T10:02:33.977+10:002013-05-21T10:02:33.977+10:00Was the temple magnificent in daylight or did it t...Was the temple magnificent in daylight or did it turn out to be tawdry (this is my prejudiced imagining), just a gimcrack gesture, composed of architectural exclamation marks?zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.com