Het Arresthuis, a 19th century prison in the Netherlands, converted into a luxury hotel
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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| — | Alan Kay |
How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals—had all
one fine day gone under?
I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.
Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city —
white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting
under fanlights and low skies to go home in it. Maybe
what really happened is
this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word
to convey that what is gone is gone forever and
never found it. And so, in the best traditions of
where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name
and drowned it.
“
| — | Eavan Boland, “Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet” |
