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Urban Aesthetics and Commerce
The urban skyline is the cities most enticing advertisement. Like the individual, the city is most likely to be noticed or recognized if it has an attractive appearance. Modern metropolises preen their skylines that they might lure in the profit potential coming from business and commerce, in all of its various forms.
Remainder
A response to the Novel Remainder by Tom McCarthy
There is no natural activity. Activity is learned, memorized, and repeated as necessary. Among the first activities learned by any human child are talking, followed shortly by walking. These acts defy both nature and gravity. That is their very purpose. They are acts of desire. Simple repetitions allied with a will that desires to manifest itself.
The End of the Story
A response to the novel The end of the Story, by Lydia Davis
The End of the Story begins with a memory that feels like an ending.
Poem by Zach Houston
unknown words taunt pronounciation
banausic somewhere off between
italy greece and boring all
words lead to roman glow
so brightly that whatever
it means reveals to all
who pass through the
pearly gates of
strangers saying
something i dont
understand
Comosed on the spot at the poem store by Zach Houston
at my suggestion of the word Banausic.
Habit!
Yet habit, strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish...
from Moby Dick by Herman Melville
