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Saturday, August 05, 2006
Turn of the Century Forsight
Good morning!
While riding recently downtown, I was flabbergasted by the many construction sites and finished condos, leaving scant sidewalks. Immediately I remembered a short entry some German wrote in regard to this development. I think the few lines are very clever.
Es war einmal ein Lattenzaun,
mit Zwischenraum, hindurchzuschaun.
Ein Architekt der dieses sah,
stand eines Abends ploetzlich da -
und nahm den Zwischenraum heraus
und baute draus ein grosses Haus.
One time there was a picket fence
with space to gaze from hence to thence.
An architect who saw this sight
approached it suddenly one night,
removed the spaces from the fence
and built of them a residence.
The above was penned by a Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914).