On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Frances Kelly wrote:
Sailing at night in dense fog on calm water into unseen space for example is a sublime exhilarating experience with strong aesthetic overtones.
Oh, you saucy girl. Tell us more about yourself!
This feeling of deliberate excitement for its own sake may very well be applicable to sailing, but also to building and fighting and racing and so on.
Ah, adrenaline, the other aphrodisiac.
The issue of course remains, which is why buildings indeed are made close and high, when it is clearly not safe.
What is "clearly not safe" about them? Are other forms of habitation not comparably unsafe? If your architect acquaintance claimed that it is *wrong* to build higher than one story, what is "right"? A very horizontally extensive city of one-story buildings? Is it safer to build only basements, because then no one can fall to their death?
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