Please stay off the Porticos. But what does that really mean? Can anyone really stay off of anything? Aren't we all going through life, just trying to stay on and not fall off into nothingness? What is a portico, is it a metaphor for life itself? What would Foucault or Faulkner say about the notion of the portico? Can anything in life really be weight bearing, or are all of our troubles simply too heavy for this world to support?
For reals though I would loller if someone's portico actually broke, since people are on them a lot and no one dies from it. But people probs should stay off of them. Speaking of breaking, when we were at Cerro Grande last night we were talking about how the one townhouse last year flooded, and how we have the same attic thing and that maybe we should go into it and do the same thing, but then we realized this is a dumb idea.
Do it, the attics are awesome.
ReplyDelete“...all of them looked up the drive at the square, paintless house with its rotting portico.”
ReplyDelete-William Faulkner from The Sound and the Fury
So I guess that means Faulkner also recommends you stay off the porticos.
ReplyDeletehere's the citation for that btw
ReplyDeleteFaulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Ed. David Minter. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. 185. Print.
Why would they ever build something non-weight bearing that is so easy to climb? also, I really hope the above comments are Jurgo, via well written/punctuated/researched and quoting Faulkner.
ReplyDeleteHahahha I feel like those comments must have been made by him.
ReplyDeleteYeah I mean, they are just for decoration/rain cover but they're sooo easy to get into from the windows. Not that I have actually ever done that.
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ReplyDeleteOne of the columns in the middle of Boone was damn near falling over a few years back, but those porticos do make a fine place to have a smoke.
ReplyDeleteAnd also, removing someone who was just drunk enough to free climb up, but too drunk to come down safely is always a fun endeavor.
ReplyDeletelooks like jurgo is watching you VIA this site benjes... look sharp
ReplyDeleteThey should make signs like that for WC Common rooms:
ReplyDelete"Warning: the floor is not weight bearing, and may collapse at any time when there are more than 8 people on it"
I was just in a long discussion about what to call the roofs above the green's doors... we settled (begrudgingly) on awning. good to know.
ReplyDeletealso, the porticoes are by far the best part of the greens. this is sad news.
we'll just have to climb the trees instead, they go higher anyway.
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