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Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space: A Place to Dream

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A Book That Lasts and Is Important

There is a way in which this book is absolutely universal to human experience. And there is another way in which it, of course, is limited and andated. It's written by a french, white guy in rarefied circumstances who had an idea of a house that only in house and garden photographs do weh the idea of a House. I think about when i in my dry north american condeminium, look at people who are drenched and wet, soaked to the skin, homeless, moving from place to place. That's the contemporary experience of people moving through space with their house on their back, and still inside the dream of their space. So semanomas w

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