I like that the Duke quad is named for Abele. But it can’t erase the prohibition of the architect any more than affirmative action can be an adequate compensation for all of the tobacco plantation workers dizzied in those fields, sweating in those rows, who labored for the prosperity in these grand buildings. Necessary but insufficient. And not a justification for the American habit of putting blinders on one’s cruelty. Self-soothing to prevent self-loathing. North Carolina speaks to Faulkner’s assertion that the past isn’t even past. We live in it as a changing same. The only possibility is
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