It's a short story written like the autobiography of a Roman soldier that becomes immortal accidentally on purpose. It's rich, surreal, has a lot to say about the nature of the infinite and mortality and human identity and this post isn't about any of those things. (but definitely read the story, it's good I promise)
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in reply to @NoelBWrites's post:
Right now I'm busy, but I love Borges and I will read the story and your chost after that.
(I read the story and your chost)(yes I insist on using "chost" until the day I die) When the City was described as not being made for humans, I thought about caves. I thought about this Tumblr post (the second picture in that tweet) about how cave are not made for humans yet they have feature that remind one of human architecture, which create this werid feeling of unease. I didn't think about human cities because, why would a human build something we can interact with and not make it for other humans?
Yet, we do that all the time. Suburb are liminal space in the architectural sense, they are space we travel in, not space that we interact with. It's the space between your house and your job and that is that. Rarely is there a sense that we are meant to linger.
Anyway, thank you for your essays!
did you mean to link a tweet there? It didn't show up
But the comparison makes sense! And I forgot to add it to the post but it's true: part of the reason why the City of Immortals (and also most urban/suburban centers in the US) feels so horrible is that it looks like it may have been built for humans, but existing in that space makes it clear that it was not
Anyway, thank you for your essays!
Wow, I completly forgot to link the tweet. Here it is: https://twitter.com/exaltiora/status/1617523690823946240
I think it is relevent, although maybe not the "the earth built it to contain you" part.
thank you!
I can see the relevance, especially the part about how the reason it lures you in (and the reason it's especially scary when it's hostile) is that it looks like shelter. It looks like safety. When it's none of those things, it feels like betrayal.
I was thinking about the so-called "ballrooms" in cave, but you are right, that also make sense.
Not sure what my feelings are in response to this but it’s definitely hitting them harder than expected
as someone born and raised in Omaha, this resonates a lot. shitty ass city if you don't have a car
so you know, I think about this post pretty often. thank you for Borgesposting
in reply to @NoelBWrites's post:
I feel similarly about lots of cities in GA, but prior history has taught me (in our case at least) alot of the hostility towards pedestrians is on purpose. We've had elections to expand our public transit farther north and they usually are opposed for reasons with racist undertones.
We actually have NiMBYs in the process of opposing a streetcar expansion to our beltline as we speak