If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual
perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality,
slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide,
generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity
which unfold in these pages would be too concentrated to allow for
the willing suspension of disbelief. All these sins and virtues,
and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some
exhibiting several of them simultaneously. Folly builders were not
as we are. They never built what we now call follies. They built
for beauty, utility, improvement; it is only we, struggling after
them with our imperfect understanding, who dismiss their prodigious
constructions as follies. Follies can be found around the world,
but England is their spiritual home. Having written the definitive
books on follies in Great Britain, Benelux and the USA, Headley
& Meulenkamp have turned their attention to the folly builders
themselves, people so blinded by fashion or driven by some nameless
ideology that they expended great fortunes on making their point in
brick, stone and flint. Most follies are simply misunderstood
buildings, and this book studies the motives, characters, decisions
and delusions of their builders. If there was madness in their
building, fortunately there was no method in it.
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