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[Lee]

>Allan Lloyd: Frick used his ill-gotten gains from oil and the railways to found a beautiful 

>house and art gallery on the East Side of Central Park, which I visited this spring. It is an 

>amazing building, with art from most of the pantheon of painters up to the Impressionists. 

I> don’t really see any connection to Wolfe’s story, but is the gaining of wealth by dubious 

>means in any way excused by setting up a collection of paintings for posterity.


Balzac claimed that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Perhaps the same is true

for every great monument, art collection and Wonder Of The World.