The novelist Emile Zola, has his character 'Sacard' the arch speculator stand on the butte of Montmarte with the recumbent giant of Paris at his feet; using his hand like an imaginary cutlass he waves it across the Paris below him to symbolize what Hausman (the uber architect of the Second Empire) plans to redraw the city beneath him with its wounding slashes to the veins of the old city.
But 'Sacard' the arch property speculator is almost mad with glee for he knows these slashes to the veins of Paris will draw blood for some but gold for him and his type and sustenance to a hundred thousand navvies, bricklayers and 'Builders'. And if there is an aftermath of pain? So be it.
You would think Ireland,USA, Spain, the current arch specualtors who are bestride the wastelands of property specualtion would have learned but greed has scant respect for anythinge except its 'snake that eats its own tail' type behaviour.
But 'Sacard' the arch property speculator is almost mad with glee for he knows these slashes to the veins of Paris will draw blood for some but gold for him and his type and sustenance to a hundred thousand navvies, bricklayers and 'Builders'. And if there is an aftermath of pain? So be it.
You would think Ireland,USA, Spain, the current arch specualtors who are bestride the wastelands of property specualtion would have learned but greed has scant respect for anythinge except its 'snake that eats its own tail' type behaviour.
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