This is revisionist dribble.
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At 10:10 01-03-97 -0500, you wrote:
>Randolph,
>
>
>Now, granted, the same thing usually happens with getting tenure,
>with making partner, with becoming "award-winning," with losing
>an edge, with believing purchased publicity's slick brochures and
>judgments of history -- hah, the smell of shit termed perfume.
>
>Architectural historians, critics, intellectuals, journalists,
>and professors are complicit in this desktop version of
>architecture which lives primarily in books, photographs, slides,
>magazines, television, computers, brochures, posters, It is
>promoted, protected and projected in libraries, museums, design
>studios, lecture halls, parties and, most importantly, in real
>estate advertisements and salesrooms.
>
>So when Kunstler moves from stringent critique to well-paid
>promotion, his work stinks of unstirred mental rancidity, the
>mind odor that suffuses the cravenly ensconced who do not have
>to sweat the future -- or so they pray to and supplicate before
>their superiors.
>
>Not that he's any different from architects and designers and
>property developers and the rest of us when we gaze at the black
>hole of failure in our dreams and squat-holes.
>
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At 10:10 01-03-97 -0500, you wrote:
>Randolph,
>
>
>Now, granted, the same thing usually happens with getting tenure,
>with making partner, with becoming "award-winning," with losing
>an edge, with believing purchased publicity's slick brochures and
>judgments of history -- hah, the smell of shit termed perfume.
>
>Architectural historians, critics, intellectuals, journalists,
>and professors are complicit in this desktop version of
>architecture which lives primarily in books, photographs, slides,
>magazines, television, computers, brochures, posters, It is
>promoted, protected and projected in libraries, museums, design
>studios, lecture halls, parties and, most importantly, in real
>estate advertisements and salesrooms.
>
>So when Kunstler moves from stringent critique to well-paid
>promotion, his work stinks of unstirred mental rancidity, the
>mind odor that suffuses the cravenly ensconced who do not have
>to sweat the future -- or so they pray to and supplicate before
>their superiors.
>
>Not that he's any different from architects and designers and
>property developers and the rest of us when we gaze at the black
>hole of failure in our dreams and squat-holes.
>