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As I lay awake in bed last night, suffering the after-effects of 20,000 yen's worth of Matsuzaka beef, I got to thinking about Asterix. I love Asterix. The great thing about that comic is its total moral clarity. It's a lot like Roland Barthes' comment about professional wrestlers--basically, every character embodies one type of moral or personal excess. One represents vanity, the next weakness; gluttony, ambition, sloth, and so on.
I am convinced that, for this reason, the world of Asterix would be perfect for deflating the foibles of architects. I started to imagine Rem, for example, as the wandering soothsayer, selling his peculiar form of wisdom from town to town. It might go something like this:
* joshua, 8/22/2004 07:46:36 PM
