More and more, diary revisitations are becoming a cozy nostalgia, including books I read back in the 90s when I first began the diaries, one in particular, the book The Vernacular Landscape, which incidentally became the title of one of the songdays. I took it out the library again. What a great book a la Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. The theme of the book is in fact about the patterns of language and how they shape our understanding of them. There are landscapes in all kinds of things if you want to see them as metaphors, such as the landscape of relationships, reshaped by the shifting tectonic plates by the "magma" of technology. Using that metaphor, social media is the volcano or earthquake. It changes the landscape such that rifts form and they become so wide you can't easily navigate them. Also, I realized how books have changed. Now it's difficult to find a book I can give 5 stars to and put it on my Top-150 list, which Vernacular Landscape is. It also brings me back to my roots as a would-be architect. (I'm grateful I've lived in Chicago and Oak Park, architectural Meccas). The other interesting thing was that the book was written in the early 8os, even before computers, and 15 years before I read the book in 1997, just when computers were coming online.
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