Can a cathedral still be called a cathedral if only its facade survives? The cathedral has lost all its functionality (use-value). After the bombardment it has acquired another meaning: a war memorial, an act of resiliency. An old sign signs a different object. An old sign with new meaning.
It needs to still be a cathedral to be as rich in meaning as it is. Its current dreamed beauty, includes necessarily the cathedral, the gothic, the destruction. Layers and layers, history changing and adding.
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