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News & ArtsTuesday, March 16, 2010
Architecture The City Animal
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Just above the train tunnel...
And woe to that fatal curiosity which might one day have the power to peer out and down through a crack in the chamber of consciousness and then suspect that man is sustained in the indifference of his ignorance by that which is pitiless, greedy, insatiable, and murderous — as if hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger.That is Manhattan; that tiger is the universe.
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"On the back of a beast", an excellent simile. A well-designed city has activity of a sort going down as far under the sidewalk as it does above it.
7
We're talking about a subway, and a coffee store. And most of my friends care about the closed bus stops due to ... the subway.
God, you'd read Heart of Darkness and think it was an allegory for why Caesar should have conquered Bosnia.
God, you'd read Heart of Darkness and think it was an allegory for why Caesar should have conquered Bosnia.
8
Perhaps you should move there Charles? Again, there are a thousand, nay ten thousand philosopes like you maintain there. Any many many Europeans, which we know you love and chase.
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@7, you are beyond a doubt the stupidest, most useless, most aggravatingly off-topic piece of shit human being who has ever lived.
11
For fucks sake... I demand Will & Fnarf get a monthly column they have to write together for Slog.
13
Joe, I'd propose a duel, but given the limited experience with guns that both of them have, the bystanders would probably be more at-risk than the participants.
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@13, I've fired a few guns in my time. I'm a bit slow on the draw, though. I'd rather just watch as hired thugs kick his liver in half.
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He really does seem to be more loopy than usual today. I think you might be right about the meds.
Re: Hired thugs - how much are you paying?
Re: Hired thugs - how much are you paying?
20
Charles's urban shamanism is right on here.
When I was brand new to Seattle, I used to sit in the window of All City Coffee, almost directly above the tunnel entrance, watching the trains disappear below and missing real cities with their layers of infrastructure and fully utilized space.
I haven't stood in that spot in a long time. If only there were anything to DO in Seattle when one is neither hungry nor thirsty...
When I was brand new to Seattle, I used to sit in the window of All City Coffee, almost directly above the tunnel entrance, watching the trains disappear below and missing real cities with their layers of infrastructure and fully utilized space.
I haven't stood in that spot in a long time. If only there were anything to DO in Seattle when one is neither hungry nor thirsty...
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