GRGR(4) kenosha kid

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Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> Howdy
>
> --- rj <rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote: (in part)
> > I first read the
> > heaving Red River cityscape as an earthquake or bomb
> > blast(....)
>
> The rising and falling stuff, clapping in the landscape, reminds me of
> the old "bouncing rubble" imagery of the nuclear armageddon.  Read this
> way, that the rubble rises then drops with a clap becomes one of yer
> (*Your?*) characteristic time-reversal tropes, muffled and distant.
>
> for whatever it might be worth,
> Mark

This might read like a very free association, but to me Red River cityscape
also recalls Robert Smithson's "Red Sandstone Corner Piece" which was
assembled in 1968 during his Earthworks period.  A very Pynchonian piece if
any of his are, synthesizing the genocide of Native Americans, Entropy, the
Tower of Babel, and lots more.  Now I'm not certain if old TRP was hip to
Smithson at this point . . .

By the way, I'm the Kenosha Kid.

--Allen Smithee