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
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