Antiochia - in Modern Syria

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“A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.”
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“...that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”
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Elijah to the king of Israel who has received a letter from the king of Syria looking for someone to cure his commander of leprosy.