Prós e Contras Chicago vs Lx VIII- Andantino

Prós VIII

There was no colour in the street and no beauty- only a maze of wire ropes overhead and dirty flagging stone under foot. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Rudyard Kipling.

(The Book of Chicago by Robert Shackleton,1920).

Contras VIII

I shall always be glad to have seen it—for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon—namely, “that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.
Winston Churchill (On Calcutta, 1896- letter to his mother- in John Colville 1985, The Fringes of Power, Norton.)