Ugly Behavior
“People who try to compete with their buildings, their roads, and their works are all just too pitiable, as if they were desperate for God’s attention. “In the process they came damn near to ruining this country,” he’d say. “I mean, look at Phoenix.”
Never mind that I liked Phoenix; both as child and daughter my opinion on the matter didn’t count. If my brother had lived past the age of six his opinion might have had more weight, but I honestly doubt it, even though I’ve held onto the notion now... and then as a convenient source of resentment.
Once or twice a year my father would drive me up to the Grand Canyon just to put me in touch with something “beyond man’s power to alter.” To me the Canyon was just this great big hole in the ground, but I knew better than to say that to my dad. Dad said he was glad he was a painter and not an architect in the face of such awe-inspiring vistas. This landscape, he said, required an artist already in sympathy with that world where human concerns were irrelevant.MoreLess
Never mind that I liked Phoenix; both as child and daughter my opinion on the matter didn’t count. If my brother had lived past the age of six his opinion might have had more weight, but I honestly doubt it, even though I’ve held onto the notion now... and then as a convenient source of resentment.
Once or twice a year my father would drive me up to the Grand Canyon just to put me in touch with something “beyond man’s power to alter.” To me the Canyon was just this great big hole in the ground, but I knew better than to say that to my dad. Dad said he was glad he was a painter and not an architect in the face of such awe-inspiring vistas. This landscape, he said, required an artist already in sympathy with that world where human concerns were irrelevant.MoreLess
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