http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/08/31/infrastructure-of-the-soul/ a gift to you and me accidently on purpose somewhere but mostly in the city Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:59:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/08/31/infrastructure-of-the-soul/#comment-91 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:02:07 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/08/31/infrastructure-of-the-soul/#comment-91 Maybe the real question is whether and how poetry can be found within infrastructure - either in resistance to rigidity or in organic growth (or both). Maybe the real question is whether and how poetry can be found within infrastructure - either in resistance to rigidity or in organic growth (or both).

]]> http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/08/31/infrastructure-of-the-soul/#comment-88 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:25:06 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/08/31/infrastructure-of-the-soul/#comment-88 When the Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg visited Germany before WWII with his mother, he had an ominous feeling because their train (and all German trains)arrived with zero-minute delay ! The Germans were obsessed by perfection, discipline and "purity". We all know the results of such a "Brave new world". Honestly I prefer the chaos of Dakar to the cosy and hyper-clean Singapore... When the Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg visited Germany before WWII with his mother, he had an ominous feeling because their train (and all German trains)arrived with zero-minute delay !
The Germans were obsessed by perfection, discipline and “purity”. We all know the results of such a “Brave new world”. Honestly I prefer the chaos of Dakar to the cosy and hyper-clean Singapore…

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