On Wednesday 29 December 2004 15:05, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:36:10 -0500, Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Here in the mountains it is well off people who want a nice > >>> place with a view who build their million dollar house on a > >>> ridge. Ruining the view for everyone else, of course. > > Not that I'm ever likely to be able to afford it, of course, but > I've often daydreamed of a nice place with a view, on a ridge or > a peak ... but I'd want to get it a particular way: either a > _castle_ so that even though I'd be interrupting the _natural_ > view, it'd at least be _scenic_; or a low-profile structure, > much of it underground, with windows and entryways incorporated > into the landscape, so that it wouldn't spoil the view much for > casual observers without telescopes (and wouldn't require as much > energy to heat and cool).
The technical aspects are appealing, as is the environmental footprint, but something in me wants to say that living in a bunker is somehow admitting defeat. Now a castle. There's something. But I'd need a retinue to make a castle run properly...and retinues are an awful lot harder to keep up these days than they were in the days of King Lear's hundred knights...and even then, those hundred knights were an awful drain on the resources! -Luigi
