church-gothic

Updated: June 9, 2025

Under the picturesqueness of those Norman details one can see the grotesque childishness of uncouth people trying to imitate the vanished Roman forms, remembered by dim tradition only." "Yes you have half-converted me to that view by what you have said before. But one can work, and despise what one does. I must do something, if not church-gothic."

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure