GR 'Streets'
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 15 16:20:22 CDT 2003
--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> "I am afraid of cities. But you mustn't leave them. If you go too far you
come up against the vegetation belt. Vegetation has crawled for miles towards
the cities. It is waiting. Once the city is dead, the vegetation will cover it,
will climb over the stones, grip them, search them, make them burst with its
long black pincers; it will blind the holes and let its green paws hang over
everything."
> --from _Nausea_ by Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm trying to remember the name of the de Stijl architect, either Gerrit
Rietveld or Theo van Doesberg , who said he didn't like green because it was
the color of nature.
DM
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