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May 28, 2005
Appearance of access
Here's something for all you manhole cover lovers (and I know you're out there, because if you can think of it, it's out there somewhere):  That's from this vast collection of Japanese manhole covers. I love the idea of making even such a mundane thing as a manhole cover an object of beauty. The Berkeley City Council never cared much about the appearance of their manhole covers; instead what they did was argue over the appearance of language (what the manhole covers should be called). The arguments went on and on, and finally they began to realize that "personhole cover" had an even dirtier sound to it: "[Personhole] is not an acceptable de-sexed word."I prefer the way the Japanese deal with appearances. posted by Eric on 05.28.05 at 08:35 AM
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I'll call it a manhole cover unless there's a woman in it, in which case I'll call it a womanhole cover. (Hmmm.... Something suggestive about that....) Anyway!.... That is beautiful. I have long admired the Japanese for their sense of beauty, a sense of beauty which we in the West once possessed in abundance as well before the Utilitarians took over, as, e.g., in the way the knights of the Crusades decorated their horses.. G. K. Chesterton once wrote an essay on why we should beautify door-knockers, and this looks like an instance of the same thing. Steven Malcolm Anderson the Lesbian-worshipping man's-man-admiring myth-based egoist · May 28, 2005 02:58 PM |
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I don't know...Personhole cover sounds like a headstone or crypt seal in a PC industrial death camp to me. Or maybe I'm thinking peopleholes...