tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post116483274778792324..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: A CASUAL LIST OF BOOKS ABOUT HOUSES & PLACESUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-91582036317087889772009-04-18T01:53:00.000-06:002009-04-18T01:53:00.000-06:00gday
i hope this is appropriate.
self-pub bk of mi...gday<br />i hope this is appropriate.<br />self-pub bk of mine. It’s at Hobart shops and http://www.bookstore.bookpod.com.au/p/514199/wow-hows-the-house-now.html <br /><br />A few words therefrom;<br /><br />“…His nomadic society could never have manufactured even a kerosene lamp, without first settling down. Such a lamp may be quaint in the face of the Dreamtime. <br /><br />The light of the camp fire creates two concentric ‘rooms’ within the broader world. One, nearest the fire, has the amenity of the vibrancy of light, allowing good song and hand-working. The other, outward before the dark, is the nearby amenity of calming half-light, handy psychological amenity for conflict resolution, quiet romance and stars. Stars without cars. Without street lights. The introspective night-lit house world, with its internally reflecting, star blocking windows, has grown from our basic domestic facility. We nonchalantly enjoy the ‘civilised’ comfort of an on-ground milky-way as we gaze out at the city across the river. <br /><br />Are houses a trap? Do they create a temptation to live in limited space, interior, couch potato, insular, battery hen, lounge lizard, mollycoddled, comfort zone, sensually deprived mental fixation. Or is this just a danger of which to be wary in a magnificent evolution of houses? Your call. Call your architect – from deep within.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Housing is not necessarily as it might have been. The housemarks may have been different. Utopian. Imagine; the psychologies of the existing houses as compared with those of a utopian house; and the efficiency in work life and ecology. A lot less effort and a lot more environmental beauty. Ecopian is the same, but with a lot less nomurbic and ecological stress.<br /><br />Onward from the simple perspective and artefacts of the hunter-gatherers we find that; new gadgetry, discovery, use and weather constantly impact the house – plaster, the tradesman’s tools and ultra-violet included. Also impacting are the metaphysical graffiti of the tastes and impulses of the dweller, the architect, society and lawmakers. The house is both stimulator and receptor. There are, no doubt, many here unrecognised life impact and life potential factors in the principle and reality of the house. <br /><br />Mere ripples to Mother Earth may be tsunamis to people. Mere ripples to us may drown our great grandchildren; or us.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Mere ripples sending out colourful cultural lifestyle and company.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Sincerely yours<br /><br />John Latham<br />no url<br />16 SanFrancisco St, Tasmania, AUS 7171Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-1164995922702483002006-12-01T10:58:00.000-07:002006-12-01T10:58:00.000-07:00Hello, Dave Lull sent me your post and I've linked...Hello, Dave Lull sent me your post and I've linked to it on Librarian's Place (his vicarious blog).<BR/>This list is a good idea-- I love books that convey a sense of a particular place, but cannot call to mind any that combine that with "houses".<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://librariansplace.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/list-of-books-about-houses-and-places/" REL="nofollow">Librarian's Place post here</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-1164945532248076682006-11-30T20:58:00.000-07:002006-11-30T20:58:00.000-07:00Gee, if I'd known I'd get this much action out of ...Gee, if I'd known I'd get this much action out of a bibliography, I'd have posted a lot of them much sooner!<BR/><BR/>Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-1164944001281734392006-11-30T20:33:00.000-07:002006-11-30T20:33:00.000-07:00Daniel's my neighbor -- I'm sending him this link!...Daniel's my neighbor -- I'm sending him this link!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-1164895421607993432006-11-30T07:03:00.000-07:002006-11-30T07:03:00.000-07:00hi--------thanks for mentioning my book. you can ...hi--------thanks for mentioning my book. you can also send people to my website for reviews of books about place. best from New Jersey.<BR/><BR/>Mickey Pearlman<BR/><BR/>www.mickeypearlman.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com