Tangentially Pynchon. see today's Google Doodle

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sat May 7 22:53:57 CDT 2016


What?

Have you been drinking? Or what?

David Morris

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I assure you I will give due weight to these insights, and due weight to
> 25 years of my family's (and 25,000 neighbors') experience.
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:45 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Also I forgot to mention another very important aspect of old-urbanism's
>> semi-public spaces where "owners" of the street could be its defenders:
>>  Those stoops, porches and fire escapes naturally resulted in residents
>> interacting with their neighbors, forming community bonds, knowing who on
>> the street lived in their neighborhood, and who didn't.  Streets thus had
>> many "mayors" wise to normal street patterns, and they defended their
>> neighbors as well as their streets.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>>
>>
>
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