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Thank you, M John Harrison, for this blog post. As ever, surprising and slightly disorienting, and thus also in a twisted way very re-assuring.
On seeing architecture and making sense of it:
"I don’t know what I’m looking at in any sense–architecturally, historically, in terms of economics, occupation, lifestyles, materials technology and the layers of technique that every extension or roof repair or repurposing of a stable block has demanded. When you are neither Meades or Pevsner, you have to make the best of the glaringly vacant space of your viewpoint; your illiteracy. In fact I wouldn’t want to do anything else. But the older I get the more I’m forced to admit slyly the difficulties of this position; & I regret that I never learned what I needed to."
Wow. I will let these thoughts work themselves through my system.