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harlan crow— the second-generation Texas billionaire who lavished Clarence Thomas with expensive getaways in the Adirondacks and Indonesia, bought the Thomas family home, and let the Supreme Court Justice’s mother rent it — with a passion for a certain kind of gardening Is .
At his $55 million estate outside Dallas, Crowe has created what he calls “Evie’s GardenAle. It is a sculpture garden of “deposed dictatorsAnd so on, which the crows have obtained with the help of a resourceful fixer named ty, mostly from a variety of former communist nations. There is a Lenin, a Ceausescu and a Castro. Happy Hosni. (yes that Is Dead, I checked). Josip Tito and Karl Marx are nearby. There is also one of Stalin and Mao talking amongst themselves.
You might think it’s weird, but it’s really-According to many people who have taken money from Crowe in the past, and a surprising number of people who haven’t—it’s a very common thing to set aside a piece of land and, as ben shapiro To put it, “Remember the things you hate.” When I was growing up, we had a small statue of St. Francis by our flower beds. But it came from a store, not Romania, and it was, I can assure you, with respect.
If you really can’t relate to — or just can’t quite process the surplus of inherited real estate that drifts aimlessly through such a project — then you might want to consider at least one Can recognize common themes: fallen strongmen, the transience of power, and so on. This is a monument to the arrogance of leftist thinkers. Or maybe it’s simpler still; forbesin 1996 profile, described the collection as “the crow’s victory garden”. He was inspired to start the collection after the end of the white apartheid regime in Zimbabwe. “In the back of my mind I have a picture of Cecil Rhodes being drawn,” he said then. “I thought how sad it is that stuff can’t be preserved.”
Again, kind of an odd reaction to Cecil Rhodes’ coup, but you can’t deny that someone so committed to British imperialism who wanted to recapture the United States at least fit the mood Is.
But there is one statue that is often referred to in connection with the garden that seems to be a bit unlike the others. “Perhaps the strangest part of the collection,” the new York Times informed of In 2003, “The statue of [Gavrilo] Principle. It came in four pieces, the paper noted, and without a nose.
theory, for those who haven’t read or seen a history book King Man, was a Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in 1914 after a group of his friends had failed to do so earlier that day. in those history books (and King Man) doctrine is often portrayed as the “spark” that ignited the “powder keg” that became World War I: the Austro-Hungarians attacked newly independent Serbia in response, which, due to existing alliances, quickly Everyone in Europe was attacking each other. Still, it’s all too easy to blame on the principal. If you had a lighter with a spark like the conspirators of the Sarajevo massacre, you would have thrown it away; The powder keg is actually the most important part of the powder-keg allegory. It seems at least a little unfair to blame a mindless murderer for the fact that two of Queen Victoria’s grandsons went to war with one of Queen Victoria’s grandsons.
If you had a lighter with a spark like the conspirators of the Sarajevo massacre, you would have thrown it away.
I’m not saying she should have done it, and you never want to associate yourself too strongly with a symbol of Serbian nationalism, but her inclusion goes against the script. The crow keeps the monuments of the highest heads of the state. The principal dropped the future head of state. The empire later fell. The man who should have a statue is the Archduke! After all, he was a Habsburg—one of the always grumpy European ruling families.
I’m not the only person willing to admit that the principal’s appearance is a little weird. Crow’s statuette man, Ty Sosnowski, bought the principal from a museum in Sarajevo during the Balkan Wars (a buyer’s market). He discussed the acquisition in that interview with times, “He’s kind of out there among other people,” Sosnowski acknowledged. “But he captures what was going on at the beginning and end of the century.” It brings the room together.
In recent weeks there has been a tendency – of which I have been guilty – to over-analyze Crowe’s gardens and their indoor galleries, which include a collection of paintings by Hitler. With no action likely to be taken by Congress to address the corruption and impunity at the heart of Thomas’ story, what else should we do? But a lot of it is clearly like dancing: it is less indicative of any coherent set of beliefs than of the futility of property taxes, and so is wealth, if allowed to accumulate in a deep enough pit of strange filth. Develops its own gravitational force to attract. When you’re buying another post-Hitler rich, your money has stopped even feeling like money; It should have its own special tax bracket. Until it isn’t, there will always be room for growth in the “Garden of Evil”. i heard a new cecil rhodes just hit the market,
