[lit-ideas] Re: Road and Thread
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:20:31 -0700
I'll assume you got what I wrote about cars--I don't receive copies of my posts
nowadays. Yesterday while I was still having car thoughts, provoked in part by
a YouTube sequence on the Reliant Robin...here
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8
...I watched a fellow mark the road. They pay people to do this, to spray
cryptic signs on asphalt to indicate to workers where the sewer line and all
the escape tunnels run. What I wondered, and I doubt you'll know but this list
often surprises, is why taggers don't "do" roads. Why is it cool and groovy to
spray an indication of your identity on a wall, a train, a bus, anything
vertical, but not so when it comes to the vast black horizontal we call a road?
Taggers are surely athletic enough to be able to bend down and at the hour
when they're at work I'm sure some roads are deserted. Maybe it's a bigger
deal if you're caught spraying a road?
Imagine the literary possibilities: you could write out Kerouac all over the
road. Maybe I should apply for a grant?
Carry on,
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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