And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
This is "Crooked House" located on Palace Street in Canterbury, England. The roadway is a level grade, and it is just the house that offers the distortion.
The impression is pronounced enough to be captured in prose - ”..A VERY OLD HOUSE BULGING over the road…leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below…” Charles Dickens, 1849
Impressive enough that it also rates an Atlas Obscura entry (where the quote came from):
Ah. Steep Hill in Lincoln. I have fallen down it! A few yards of it anyway.
ReplyDeleteI know that carpenter.
ReplyDeleteNow he gives bicycle riding instructions in Delaware. To Biden.
Right angles are a plot by the perfidious French!
ReplyDeleteLooks like some of the shit they're throwing up around here (UK) but at least that's lasted a while. The new shit won't.
ReplyDeleteThis is "Crooked House" located on Palace Street in Canterbury, England. The roadway is a level grade, and it is just the house that offers the distortion.
ReplyDeleteThe impression is pronounced enough to be captured in prose - ”..A VERY OLD HOUSE BULGING over the road…leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below…” Charles Dickens, 1849
Impressive enough that it also rates an Atlas Obscura entry (where the quote came from):
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/crooked-house-3
Looks kinda like http://oakridge-smokehouse.com/ in Schulenberg, TX - but that place was built as a spoof... Great Q ...
Deletefinger pincher
ReplyDeleteWell, it's some plumb.
ReplyDelete