This was a thing in Nazi architecture. The idea was that the buildings would continue to convey the aesthetic value of Reich for thousands of years.
Speer: Hitler liked to say that the purpose of his building was to transmit his time and its spirit to posterity.
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Jan Morris is a legend, always tough but kind 👇🏼
“Toronto is the most undemonstrative city I know, and the least inquisitive. The Walkman might be made for it. It swarms with clubs, cliques, and cultural societies, but seems armour-plated against the individual.”
I'd never heard of her until just now, and went to look her up. I'm tempted to give Conundrum a read, just for a sense of how things were talked about in the time, which all seems much calmer than today
I think her daughter had some harsh words to say, I've never really delved into it.
But yeah, for a long time she was one of the most visible trans people.
I was startled the other day watching a DVD of "The Flipside Of Dominick Hyde" (1980) as an extra was a "Did You See?" episode and she was...
... one of the reviewers on the panel. And it was completely novel to see a trans women included on a programme with no reference to her being trans and no squabbling about gender.
Society has seemingly completely lost its senses in the (near) half century since.
I love her writing, in which a huge theme is being neither here nor there. That resonates with me.
I think she was more present in the media in the 90s when she was, well, alive.
