GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 3 18:06:28 CDT 2000


Howdy
--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> >> OK:
> >> epistemological question - what is the world like?
> >
> > Look around as carefully as you know how, suspending judgement for
> a
> > while...
> >
> >> ontological question - which (and whose) world is this?
> >
> > Why *this* one, uh, ours.
> 
> There's the jump into postmodernism. My world isn't yours, or perhaps
> is,
> but might not be.

And *there* is the jump into metaphysics, which a week ago y'all were
trying to transend...

> 
> 
> > But the candlestick they illustrate is much more characteristic of
> V's
> > work.  (*V* -- another Pynchon link!!) Have you looked at
> www.vsba.com?
> >
> I did, and it wasn't one of Venturi's buildings that the essay I read
> was
> discussing. Je suis désolé.

What did you think of the work?

> 
> This essay might be of interest:
> http://iberia.vassar.edu/lucretia/Olson.html

It is interesting.  Most Solomonic!  I noted with interest the
paragraphs on "regionalism" and the "real"...

Mark

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