Another One Gone
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Fuck it!
Not only has it been a beautiful day and I’ve been stuck in front of the computer, but I just went for a walk to get some fresh air and stretch my legs and discovered that one of my favourite houses in the neighbourhood has been demolished. This is the sort of thing I take personally.
The house in question was a not-so-old (mid-70s I’d say) wooden place, uninhabited for quite a while. I’ve coveted it for ages. Beautiful timber, simple lines, it looked so comfortable and inviting. Now it’s a pile of rubble.
What really hurts is that no effort whatsoever was made to salvage the timber (this is par for the course). Huge cedar beams have been reduced to splinters. Literally snapped to pieces. All just thrown away because to reuse it would keep money from the pockets of the construction companies, and they’re the guys that run this country and don’t you fucking well forget it.
What a slap in the face.
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Posted to General Rants • 2001.12.09 (Sun) • 16:40
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Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2001.12.15, 12:01
I know exactly how you feel and I’m not just being sympathetic. The abandoned house next to my apartment fell to the same fate. I, too, coveted the lovely old house and garden. If you go to the URL I’ve listed, I’ve posted three photos of it. I did salvage one of the roof tiles and brought it back to the states with me. It still sits in my living room, now eleven years later.
Posted by jh 2001.12.15, 16:36
I shouldn’t have followed that link; how heartbreaking! I just can’t understand it - and can’t help turning these demolitions into emblems of everything that’s wrong with ‘consumer society.’
I didn’t even have time to grab a memento mori from this place (which wasn’t, I should point out, nearly as nice the place next to you in Kamegawa).
I walked by the block today and it is utterly vacant. Every last scrap has gone.
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