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                                              December 30, 2005



      "I have looked at the landscapes those people have made;
      the blocks of concrete and glass, with their bones of
      steel - and I have tried to learn to love them. You
      might consider me a quizzling for that. I have only this
      to say in my defence: that they were buildings designed
      without love, designed to exclude love, and that, by
      finding some secret beauty in them, I hope to subvert
      that design. I have observed them through the eyes of
      writers, from Gernsbaack to Ballard. I have watched them
      in the morning, the pale sky calling them to anonymity;
      I have seen them at their crudest, in the noon sun, blue
      skies all around, some 'eighties corporate soap opera
      idyll; I have viewed them in the evening, stained by a
      falling sun, and at night, when they rise monolithic
      beneath city smog, empty of stars. I have found what I
      seek only when their pattern is broken, only when they
      are punctuated by earlier, wilder forms of
      architecture. Yet they cannot swallow my hope. There is
      still something there, hiding at the bottom of the
      flat-pack, easy-assembly box they came out of."

                      -- Jennie Kermode,
                         alt.gothic,
                         December 28, 2000

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