AtD--How Does it Fit/Great Global Novels

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Straight-line streets tell a different story than crooked streets.  The narrow, curved streets in the vicinity of the New York Stock Exchange humanize one of the most soul-less places on the planet.  The streets mark the sites of the old dirt paths that veered around trees, ponds and hillocks, formed in colonial and pre-colonial days.  Even the huge skyscrapers that line them can't take away the traces of the preterite feet that made those paths.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 16, 2006 2:04 PM
>To: david.casseres at gmail.com
>Cc: monropolitan at yahoo.com, keithsz at mac.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Re: AtD--How Does it Fit/Great Global Novels
>
>>Feng shui comes into M&D as a means of talking about how unhealthy it
>>is to draw a Line across a country -- not as a bit of cultural
>>bric-a-brac.
>>
>
>I would argue that both.
>
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