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1. CatSoc :nv: (catlord@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 04:20:57 JST CatSoc :nv:
   It is my conviction that the Eiffel Tower looks like shit.
   
   >A petition called "Artists against the Eiffel Tower" was sent to the Minister of Works and Commissioner for the Exposition, Adolphe Alphand, and it was published by Le Temps on 14 February 1887:
   
   >>We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection … of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower … To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. And for twenty years … we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal.
   
   Look at these first three photos I've posted, and then the photos you get when you search up "beautiful EIffel Tower" because so many people have it in their heads as some kind of Platonic ideal of "the majesty of Paris and wonder of France!!!!" so they try and make it as pretty as possible. What is actually nice in these photos IS NOT THE TOWER ITSELF. A fucking commieblock would look good were it presented so romantically!