There were none of the small deer up there; they are more common about the settlements. One ran into the city of Bangor two years ...before, and jumped through a window of costly plate glass, and then into a mirror, where it thought it recognized one of its kind.... This the inhabitants speak of as the deer that went a-shopping.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While enclosed shopping malls suspended space, time, and weather, Disneyland went one step further and suspended reality. Any geog...raphic, cultural, or mythical location, whether supplied by fictional texts (Tom Sawyer's Island), historical locations (New Orleans Square), or futuristic projections (Space Mountain), could be reconfigured as a setting for entertainment. Shopping malls easily adapted this appropriation of "place" in the creation of a specialized theme environment. In Scottsdale, the Borgata, an open-air shopping mall set down in the flat Arizona desert, reinterprets the medieval Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano with piazza and scaled-down towers (made of real Italian bricks).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on;... But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he... didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure fo...r processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who is at my window, who, who? It's the blind cuckoo, mulling... the old song over. The old song is about fear, about tomorrow and next year. Timor mortis conturbat me, he sings....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other... window?--and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »