84 — Ian Nairn — 1/3 — Subtopia
About Buildings + Cities
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The High Point of Pepasner's Career
Pepasner's writing is not without its foibles or it's sort of, you know, he has his hobby horses. He has a certain pitch he wants to make about Englishness but he always does it in this very restrained and dry way whereas with Nan, the Nan mode bleeds in. So here for example, we have Byfleet which is a quote, a shattered village south of Waybridge, a few old houses remain, much of this centuries contribution is beneath contempt. Alternately, Righate is a characterless little town in the middle of the county with the typical Surrey mixture of poor original buildings, alternate vandalism and gentility in rebuilding. And I think that
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