The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton"But what remains to these stones is their eloquent ability to deliver the message common to all funerary architecture, from marble tomb to rough wooden roadside shrine - namely, 'Remember'. The poignancy of the roughly chiselled family of mossy orthostats, keeping their lonely watch over a landscape around which none save sheep and the occasional rain-proofed hiker now roam, is heightened only by the awareness that we recall nothing whatsoever about the one they memorialise - aside, that is, from this leader's evident desire, strong enough to inspire his clan to raise a forty-tonne capstone in his honour, that he not be forgotten.
The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories."
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1 comment:
That's a fun idea! I like it! Too bad the closest book to me is only 10 pages long, has pictures, and is a Little Golden Book called, "The Monster at the end of this Book." :) (are you having a flashback yet? Grover from Sesame Street?) haha.
so, how bout' a random page, and a random sentence... ?
"There! I, Grover, am nailing this page to the next one so that you will not be able to turn it, and we will not get any closer to the MONSTER at the end of this book."
Nixon would appreciate it! :)
xoxo.
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