The human things
Jan. 25th, 2005 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apolliana"I am aware I am saying things that are incredibly banal, but I am travelling through a banal country and I cannot find a better way to cope than living and thinking about this in a banal way" Italo Calvino, American Diary, the section on Las Vegas
He talks continually, in the southwest, about how everything, both the places populated by people and not, is lacking in "human dimensions." I wonder if this isn't true to a certain extent for much of America, and is why I felt the human dimensions were something elusive that needed to be nurtured, as well as why I do not like desert landscapes. But perhaps "the human" just is fragile. The same way one's illusions are. Too little humanity can destroy one's world, as can too much.
He talks continually, in the southwest, about how everything, both the places populated by people and not, is lacking in "human dimensions." I wonder if this isn't true to a certain extent for much of America, and is why I felt the human dimensions were something elusive that needed to be nurtured, as well as why I do not like desert landscapes. But perhaps "the human" just is fragile. The same way one's illusions are. Too little humanity can destroy one's world, as can too much.
