An American arriving in Italy or France in August and discovering that the windows have shutters, glass and nothing else is reliably astonished. An Italian arriving in Ohio and finding…
Stand on an American building site and what you see does not look like a house. It looks like a very large piece of furniture: a lattice of identical thin…
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All quarters, nobody working there, and a floor built to flood. Here are eleven.
1. The Machines Took Quarters and Nothing Else
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Every machine was coin-operated, the slide…
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Consider what the front lawn actually is, described without the familiarity. A household takes the most prominent portion of its property, plants a non-native grass on it, prevents…
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The porch is the most sentimentalized piece of American architecture there is, and the sentiment has made it almost impossible to discuss accurately. The standard account says that…
It tastes with its feet, cannot chew, and sees you coming in slow motion. Here are fifteen.
1. It Tastes Everything With Its Feet
There are taste organs on the…