Achitecture for Dummies? Let's go Forward not Back in Time
Since I have an attempt at humour as cover (just kidding adma), I thought this would be an appropriate time to belatedly relate another New York City anecdote, this time from a month back.
There is a store here that carries all types of serious books on architecture, one of the best of its kind, named Morton Book Parlor in Manhattan, on Third Ave near 59th Street. At the check out area someone comes in and asks for the book Architecture for Dummies. I couldn't believe they carried this since it was not that kind of store - so I thought.
I found that book later in all its glory with customary bright yellow covers, and looked inside to see a "Forward by Robert Stern" - not realising that his name was also highlighted on the front of the cover as large as the author's. I suspect I am probably the last person to think that this cannot be possible, but then I thought about it some more, you know, the Disney connection floated into my mind and celebrity status he now garners and all the rest, and this no longer seemed so foreign a thought. I won't extend that thought any further on this thread, it might become tinder, but I filed it away in my memory for later use.
Now, whenever I need to bring a smile or sometimes a laugh to take the edge off this topic, that thought and all it entails, is good enough for me.