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I am not speaking of mere filth. One expects steel towns to be dirty. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every hou in sight.
From East Liberty to Greensburg, a distance of 25 miles, there was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye.
Some were so bad, and they were among the most pretentious --churches, stores, warehous, and the like--that they were downright startling; one blinked before them as one blinks before a man with his face shot away.
A few linger in memory, horrible even there: a crazy little church just west of Jeannette, t like a dormer window on the side of a bare leprous hill; the headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at another forlorn town, a steel stadium like a huge rat--trap somewhere further down the line.
But most of all I recall the general effect--of hideousness without a break. There was not a single decent hou within eyerange from the Pittsburgh to the Greensburg yards.
武汉瑜伽教练培训 There was not one that was not misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby.
Lesson 6 Disappearing through the Skylight
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The playfulness of the modern aesthetic is, finally, its most striking---and also its most rious and, by corollary, its most disturbing ---feature.
The playfulness imitates the playfulness of science that produces game theory and virtual particles and black holes and that, by introducing human growth genes into cows, forces students of ethics to reexamine the definition of cannibalism.
The importance of play in the modern aesthetic should not come as a surpri. It is announced in every city in the developed world by the fantastic and playful buildings of p
ostmodernism and neomodernism and by the fantastic juxtapositions of architectural styles that typify collage city and urban adhocism.
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Today modern culture includes the geometries of the International Style, the fantasies of facadism, and the gamesmanship of theme parks and muum villages.
It pretends at times to be static but it is really dynamic. Its buildings move and sway and reflect dreamy visions of everything that is going on around them.
It surrounds its citizens with the linear sculpture of pipelines and interstate highways and high--tension lines and the delicate virtuosities of the surfaces of the Chrysler Airflow and the Boeing 747 and the lacy weavings of circuits etched on silicon, as well as with the brutal asrtiveness of oil tanker and bulldozers and the Tinkertoy complications of truss and geodesic domes and lunar landers.
It abounds in images and sounds and values utterly different from tho of the world of
natural things en from a middle distance.
Lesson 5 Love Is a Fallacy
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I dashed perspiration from my brow. “Polly,” I croaked, “you mustn’t take all the things so literally. I mean this is just classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school don’t have anything to do with life.”
cutest “Dicto Simpliciter, ” she said, wagging her finer at me playfully.
That did it. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. “Will you or will you not go steady with me?”
“I will not,” she replied.
bonoloto “Why not?” I demanded.
“Becau this afternoon I promid Petey that I would go steady with him.”
worthless I reeled back, overcome with the infamy of it. After he promid, after he made a deal, after he shook my hand! “The rat!” I shrieked, kicking up great chunks of turf. “You can’t go with him, Polly. He is a liar. He is a cheat. He is a rat.”
