Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Yes, darling, let's not fight. You like categorizing things that already exist because you're an archivist, and I'm a designer who produces ephemera and only cares about aesthetic purity.
As a kid, on school trips to London or with my parents, I'd be shown the London Wall - or what little remained of it, all cobble-stoney and flinty and aesthetically unappealing, usually seen in the rain. It didn't do a thing for me, but I knew it had symbolic value. The site of the Parliament building at Front and Parliament has tremendous symbolic value too even though there's nothing above ground to see and maybe only a few outlines of the building below ground as well. But rrrrrruins have a certain undeniable appeal. Just saving something that's totally decrepit has a Pythonesque charm. And the remains of that wall on Queen West that used to keep people inside a building rather than keeping people outside of it is one of Toronto's most Pythonesque relics of all.
As a kid, on school trips to London or with my parents, I'd be shown the London Wall - or what little remained of it, all cobble-stoney and flinty and aesthetically unappealing, usually seen in the rain. It didn't do a thing for me, but I knew it had symbolic value. The site of the Parliament building at Front and Parliament has tremendous symbolic value too even though there's nothing above ground to see and maybe only a few outlines of the building below ground as well. But rrrrrruins have a certain undeniable appeal. Just saving something that's totally decrepit has a Pythonesque charm. And the remains of that wall on Queen West that used to keep people inside a building rather than keeping people outside of it is one of Toronto's most Pythonesque relics of all.