Hi Allison,
well, I'd want it to be an alarming monument -- I just cldnit take
the complacency with which the kulchur-administrators of Rodez dealt
with AA by not dealing with him. Then there were those american
christians swarming in the great old gothic cathedral (which has the
best gargoyles, most terrifying, most wierd-looking as they stick out
like long sore monster-thumbs with screaming horror-mouths from the
side walls -- think I'll put a few photos up on the log soon) -- & so
an anti-xtian stations of the cross took hold in my mind, so as to
exorcise the city — each one of my stations, besides the visuals of
the AA drawings, wld also have a sound column with extracts from the
radio version of "To have done with the Judgment of God" -- tough
magic is needed in this region -- Rodez is but 1/2 hour's drive from
Albi...
"the geographical markers of water sheds" -- yes, I know what you
suggest, but I feel that whenever such a geographicla amrker is used
to make a separation between humans (those from this side of the
river, those from the other side) we are basically in the same old
distinction — don't really know any way around it, certainly not on
an earth as overcrowded as this one, but hold fast to the saving
grace of the big city's cosmopolitism -- I guess big, crowded cities
surrounded by beautiful, inhospitable desert is what i like the best
(i.e. no artifically watered suburbs w/ golf courses)...
quickly here,
Pierre
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