The Before
A friend from England just sent us this amazing picture. If you look closely, you’ll note number 42 doesn’t yet exist! Its future spot is where I’ve labelled Stanton 42.
The change is shocking. All that land around the Olombel house (château) has been built on. There are four quite attractive mansions and four apartment blocks (each containing 4 to 6 apartments). The Vidal garden has been broken up and there are now four more houses on it. And where the Cormouls house once stood there are now seven homes! Here’s now:
My Mazamet 
What a wonderful gift. You have to make sure you leave something just as wonderful for a future Pinky to find. A time capsule perhaps? Once No. 42 is exactly the way you want it, you could photograph/video everything and set it aside for posterity. And before you scoff…why not?
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You know the giant house that used to be behind number 42 (Cormouls)- the owner had it demolished on his death!!! Isn’t that amazing?
Whomever gets number 42 in the future will get (and hopefully pass down) everything I put in here!
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That’s horrible, Pinky. What a sad, miserable person the owner of Cormouls must have been. We are only the custodians of beauty. What a bastard to destroy something lovely. 😦
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We’ve been engaged in serious debate n the matter for days!!! What if demolishing and land dismemberment was the most profitable option for his children?
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Don’t use pragmatism against me! If it were a toss up between my child and my house, clearly the child would win hands down but…a part of me would still hope the child in question would cherish that house and keep it going.
Okay, I’ve just branded myself a hopeless optimist but you did ask. 😦
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P.S. I’m having this blown up professionally so I can frame it 🙂
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Brilliant idea! Does no. 42 have a library? I could see it above the mantlepiece of a room filled with paper books.
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I’m hoping to transform the top floor into a library 😀
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Oh…now I truly am envious!
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Do you have a picture of where you were born? And how it looks now?
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Um…no, but the building is still there in Budapest so I guess I could find it. Why?
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Like watching a cancer spread 😦
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Yes… I wonder what will be left in another 100 years?
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Progress doesn’t always have to be ugly and destructive. Maybe one day we’ll learn to leave our little spot on earth more beautiful than we found it.
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Lets hope, but 8 billion people breeding like mad isn’t going to make that task easy.
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-sigh- No.
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I wonder what the departmental archive holds about the dismemberment…
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Do you think there could be something interesting as in non-technical?
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Yes….I used to check out the history of places we bought and found that in some cases family archives existed…a bit luck of the draw, but worth a look and the bods who work there are usually enthusiasts.
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