*I know this sounds a bit strange, but when you've been around heritage structures of this kind for a while, you come to understand that they were never meant to last this long. They're hard to maintain, and they get in the way of the daily lives of the people in and around them. The values they were built to convey have very little to do with the contemporary values that we ourselves impose on them.
*When I walk around, or inside, these structures, instead of admiring them, I feel a peculiar guilt about them now. I appreciate them a lot, and I've come to know rather a lot about the people who built them and what they were trying to do, but if I ever met those people, and I was able to tell them what had become of their ambitions, they would be truly and justly upset. The mere fact that an alien creature like me was strolling around in their strongholds, admiring their brickwork: it would break their hearts. What we call "heritage" is vaguely tainted with trespassing and injustice. We polish their skeletons, but we don't look in their eyes.
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