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such [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] old edifices can be remarkable. The slabs of buried saints are marked on the floor, the main altar is gorgeous, the side chapels beautifully simple and quaint, the carved wood confessionals a monument to the art of woodcarving. I'm a layman with none of the critical [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] aspirations of the professional [[strikethrough]] art expert [[/strikethrough]] man of art; what pleases me are [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] to be beautiful is oftentimes beautiful only to me. If a thing inanimate moves me I say "It is beautiful" (mostly to myself) or "It is not good. I don't like it." And so no matter what the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] value of an old fashioned piece of statuary accorded by the critics of the world I have my own tastes. Thank you. A lot of the gorgeousness of the Metropolitan art museum is boresome to me while less talked about stuff