On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, ARWNY wrote:

> I don't really care if a building is old or new, I simply want to feel
> good when I am near it. Taste is arbitrary, in art or architecture. Some
> of my friends cannot handle standing in my office because of the sensory
> overload of STUFF. My wife is always complaining about the stuff in our
> lives. I'm comfortable with stuff, but I also see relationships between
> the different articles of stuff that gives it all a flow and coherency.
> The Dakotas have less stuff per square mile than NYC. I like the
> Dakotas, and I like NYC.  Though I would think it poor taste to build a
> mile high McDonald's in the Dakotas.

Amen, brother!

                           Larry Kestenbaum