Westfield (Josh Freedman-Berthoud)
Falsedichotomies is proud to resurrect Guest Dichotomies with these reflections on London’s largest shopping centre from Josh FB. If anyone is interested in contributing anything to the Guest Dichotomies section, please be in touch. Look out over the weekend for reflections on Obama’s victory and next week for more Israeli election analysis. That long-promised piece on Indignation is on its way as well, as is the second part of the marriage series.
On the dreary, cold misery of a wet Wood Lane, Westfield looms, a soulless grey monolith; hard and dark and aesthetically redundant, a slab, on which the eye neither settles nor moves, towering to nothingness with no profound purpose whatever. A quick glide up an innocuous escalator, though, and the world changes: here is the death of God itself. Read more
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