tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post5791420803798642101..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: picture, light, creativeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-22006223465933111862011-02-01T11:48:35.842+00:002011-02-01T11:48:35.842+00:00I am presently reading Sinclair Lewis's Babbit...I am presently reading Sinclair Lewis's Babbit on my Sony and there's a resonance. Babbit, a realtor in a US town called Zenith is a member of the Elks all of whom engage in "boosting" Zenith. Ninety years after Babbit was written Hereford has taken up the practice. When the number of empty shops in Hereford rose to embarrassing levels the city council took to papering the windows of vacant properties in prominent positions with scenes of Hereford in happier times together with slogans that prove rural isolation is no stimulus for pithy wordage. I would have expected greater sophistication in TW.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-34398645426281725052011-02-01T01:50:05.494+00:002011-02-01T01:50:05.494+00:00Uh.....make that Potemkin village.
Apologies. ;~...Uh.....make that Potemkin village. <br /><br />Apologies. ;~)CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653106775702366387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-5993567602202664262011-01-31T17:23:05.092+00:002011-01-31T17:23:05.092+00:00Love the "Potempkin village" aspect of
t...Love the "Potempkin village" aspect of<br />the photo. And for that matter of the other<br />pieces as well. Something else going on behind the facade.CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653106775702366387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-2444760017049363112011-01-31T17:18:02.702+00:002011-01-31T17:18:02.702+00:00These three pieces of writing and the photo all re...These three pieces of writing and the photo all reveal what lies beyond the apparently bland surface of reality. It is like taking a step into another world that is more real than the real. Great post.Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07642126053527835870noreply@blogger.com