Comments by "TinLeadHammer" (@TinLeadHammer) on "Chornobyl Family 🇺🇦"
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Functional, not bleak. Not "concrete jungle" of Manhattan and neither car-oriented single-family home suburbia with stupid zoning laws, when you cannot have a grocery store, a barber shop, a cafe, a kindergarten or a medical office within walking distance or two-three bus stops from your home. I truly hate American suburbia, and no one said better about it than Nathanael West in "The Day of the Locust":
Not even the soft wash of dusk could help the houses. Only dynamite would be of any use against the Mexican ranch houses, Samoan huts, Mediterranean villas, Egyptian and Japanese temples, Swiss chalets, Tudor cottages, and every possible combination of these styles that lined the slopes of the canyon.
They were all of plaster, lath and paper, as steel, stone and brick curb a builder's fancy a little, forcing him to distribute his stresses and weights and to keep his corners plumb, but plaster and paper know no law, not even that of gravity.
On the corner of La Huerta Road was a miniature Rhine castle with tarpaper turrets pierced for archers. Next to it was a little highly colored shack with domes and minarets out of the Arabian Nights. Both houses were comic, their desire to startle was so eager and guileless.
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
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