[lit-ideas] Re: Walls and such
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:46:00 -0500
Torgeir Fjeld wrote:
"But is a wall something you build to keep something in or out?"
Sometimes a wall is just the absence of not-wall.
A good example would be the western part of Ireland, where you see the
touristically pretty fields sliced up into small walled sections. These
walls were buildt because the fields were too full of stones to try to
grow anything, and the walls were built at the points where lifting and
carrying the stones seemed to be most efficient. The walls are just
convenient places to put the stones from the fields, not "things" in
themselves; they are the absence of something, growable land.
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