Fred Boissonnas & The Greek Outlook part2

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The bridge of Arta over the Arahthos river in 1913.
"Forty-five cobblers and sixty apprentices were building a bridge over Arta's river. All day long they were building, each night it was falling down. [...] A bird came and sat, across the river. It didn't sing like a bird, neither as a sparrow, but it sung and said in human speech: "If you don't wall a man, the bridge won't stand; don't wall an orphan, or a stranger or even a passerby, but the arch-cobbler's pretty wife who comes late in the afternoon, early in the evening."

(traditional folk song)

Toil without sacrifice is unthinkable. It almost challenges the gods.

Fred Boissonnas & The Greek Outlook part1

The monument frames the man, the man defines the monument. The strangely dynamic line of a leaning, static pose encompasses the contradictions of the Greek soul. And its aesthetics; poised between tradition and progress.

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