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Monumental Endeavor
At 80, Harry Wilks lives alone in an underground house atop a hill surrounded by woods, meadows and huge sculptures. When he drinks his morning coffee under his glass pyramid roof, he can enjoy his collection of antiquities: Greek vases, Roman mosaics, Etruscan heads, even an Egyptian sarcophagus. When he climbs his two-story tower, he looks out on his 265-acre "yard" and surveys a landscape unlike any other. On a hill to the west stands "Abracadabra, ' a giant crimson swirl of steel set in a field of green. To the south, the tall stone columns of "The Age of Stone" stand sentry in a wooded glen, evoking memories of Stonehenge. At every turn, ...
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