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Alan Pollock (nexus@king.cts.com) wrote:
: As an adjunct to my previous comments, the article I replied to was not
: written by Dani Kuettel, but quoted by him, so I hold him responsible,
: especially since his own remarks have been in the same vein.  What I said
: pertains to both he and Valdas Anelauskas (whoever that actually is).  May
: Dani Kuettel find less mediocre articles to inflict upon us, or even better: 
: stop completely and do it himself. Nex

This is so true.  As someone who loves to read and who loves the written 
word, I found this piece so banal it was hard to stomach.  If one is 
looking for better insight (and a substantially more effective piece) on 
the harms of the city, "Tokens of Mystery," by Scott Russell Sanders 
would be a good place to start.  It's worth a read just for the sheer 
pleasure of experiencing what he does with words, regardless of one's 
opinions re: the environment.

--sarah

"Of course, like all reasonably afluent cities that take the burdens of 
enlightenment seriously, Boston provides its children with places to 
confront nature, as it were, in the flesh.  Chief among these are the 
zoo, where morose animals pace in cages; the aquarium, where fish circle 
in tanks; the arboretum, where trees that never rub limgs in the wild 
grow side by side and bear identifying labels; and the sceince museum, 
where the universe comes packaged in mind-sized dollops, usually jazzed 
up with electronices."

--Scott Russell Sanders, in "Tokens of Mystery"