Waste Land?
May. 23rd, 2023 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo A line that snagged my attention...
People complaining (context unimportant) about having to live in "the Waste Land of suburbia."
Every place has history, every place has character, every place has beauty for those with eyes to see- but if you choose to view it as a Waste Land that's what it will be...
There's a thing that G.K. Chesterton wrote that has become a permanent item of my intellectual baggage.
It goes something like this (I won't vouch for every syllable being correct because I'm quoting from memory)...
"If men loved London as men loved life London would soon be as fair as Florence..."
The novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill- which I think is the best of Chesterton's longer fictions- is a development of this idea.
People complaining (context unimportant) about having to live in "the Waste Land of suburbia."
Every place has history, every place has character, every place has beauty for those with eyes to see- but if you choose to view it as a Waste Land that's what it will be...
There's a thing that G.K. Chesterton wrote that has become a permanent item of my intellectual baggage.
It goes something like this (I won't vouch for every syllable being correct because I'm quoting from memory)...
"If men loved London as men loved life London would soon be as fair as Florence..."
The novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill- which I think is the best of Chesterton's longer fictions- is a development of this idea.
