Erm... apologies to P.S. like this, but I've just been reading through the last few days posts and, well, I mentioned how beautiful I found Gneissy's post in #sinister, but not here. I was at a few discussions at the Royal Fine Art Comission for Scotland last week: evidently, topsoil is one of our most precious resources and so the idea arose as to why not revive a 19th Century plan to leave the grass alone and build a tall village on these rocky Craigs? Would people jump from the windows of these super-elevated tower blocks, or merely look down over the rest of us burghers? Last time I was up there was with a bunch of people around 4am by a lochan with a bottle of mead. I've run up and around it and this mass of rock: how psychologically complex its surfaces? The aspiration latent in its height: heightened sensibilities and the concepts relating to Nietszche's superman or the profound abyss of vertical extent... More than anything, I suppose it was the simply described facts in Will's posts that I found so deeply moving. Oh... and salutations to Kirsten's field and Idle's story. Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+