(urth) Who's Right

[Son of Witz]

On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> On 12/4/2010 10:47 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
>> On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/4/2010 9:19 AM, Son of Witz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>   wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> (It may be worthwhile to note that in the much smaller citadel of the 1950's A&M campus, at least one building had prominent animal skull relief on the fascia.)
>>>> 
>>>> Might you share an image link, good sir?
>>> 
>>> I'm still hunting for archived images; there were not many of the older bldgs left when I went back a couple of years ago to document them. Back in my salad days of the class of 91, there were several collections of older images on display at the campus, but they've moved along as well. One I really want to find was about the vanished library - still there, but totally concealed by subsequent additions and remodeling until it was a minor part of the "new" library, seen here:
>>> 
>>> http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23570465
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>>> Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
>> 
>> 
>> That's neat about the library.  How is A&M like a citadel? I'm totally ignorant.
> 
> It was a military academy as well as a college, various of which have been called citadels, and it has habitually been a clump of buildings of varying styles added at different times by a succession of administrations and patrons, often repurposed considerably from their original form and function. I don't think there's been a itme when the campus was completely walled around, so it's not like the citadel of the Autarch in that way, but they have ceremonial cannonades, rites and beatings, symbolic sculpture and architecture, and the underground tunnels. I suppose the guilds could be representative of the various civilian employee departments like faculty, maintenance, administration, etc. and the latinos would have comprised the autocthons and the remnants of the previous empires.
> 
> 
> -- 


Interesting.  Makes me wish I'd had ANY Involvement with traditions.  The idea of learning and training in a guild is fascinating in retrospect, though I would have balked at the time I might have been able to be involved. The Art Institute I went to seemed old at 110 years, it's only seeming tradition was that at some point you had to get naked and hurt yourself in front of an audience.
~Witz