[caww]

.....”How could the world lose something like this?”....

The world and the earth ages...it was an 800 year old building...wouldn’t take much for a fire to move very fast in that tinder box.

[miss marmelstein]

That’s not what the freeper means. It is how could the world lose one of the most iconic symbols of western civilization - the artistry and scientific knowledge that it embodies. It is more than wood and stone.

Rich Lowry on Twitter is quoting a brilliant description of the cathedral from Victor Hugo’s book.