¶ House
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House:
“Then you find that humanity, very justly, is happy when it gets through the war and survives and has the boys back from the war. You have gone through terrible winters on the frontier and here is your little family-- you survived. That is what you care about and you rejoice and in your rejoicing you identify anything around you with the success of the survival. You say, here is this humble little house. What a wonderful little house it is! What wonderful days we have gone through in that house. So we say I love that house, and you are identifying and rejoicing in your success with the visible shelter. You now have time and it needs some new shingles, or some new boards in here and so we have a little more tools and we will carve some of these. . . We will put up new ones, and this time they will be carved to show how much we appreciate it-- let’s honor it, let’s decorate it. So gradually the structures became embellished. Through all the history of man this make-do form of enclosure becomes gradually embellished and develops certain logical characteristics of the kinds of materials it was fashioned from, and the kinds of time you had available, and the kinds of tools you had available.”
1 Jul’62
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #1, pp. 17-18.
