Postcard from Alcobaca

[imomus]

Small town in north Portugal, no internet. Well, very little. Alcobaca sounds like minor licensed vice, and it's true the monastery looks like it should be on a sherry bottle label or an exotic packet of ciggies. This postcard view is literally what we see from the hotel window. Gird your loins for a one hour radio broadcast "dancing about architecture" in Lisbon and Porto.

Comments

Re: writing about music

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

I think it was Hegel who wrote that architecture was frozen music.

(As Flanders & Swann added, "...and we like to think of our music as 'defrosted architecture'")

Re: writing about music

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'm wrong--seems to be a bit modern in context; but I cannot help but wonder what thawed architecture might be. Surely music, once frozen and then thawed, might be unfit for consumption. Clothing, perhaps?

Re: writing about music

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm quite a fan of thawed architecture, especially when it's whimsical (more a musical La Sagrada Familia (http://www.solarnet.org/Travel/ESP/jour081.htm) than St Paul's): click here (http://www.johnbarber.com/flanders.html) to hear what I mean...

(http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/p-13215.jpg)

Re: writing about music

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Flanders & Swann seem to be a thawed version of one of my favorite architectural follies:



Delightful!

W

Re: writing about music

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

Wow! What a charming image! Where is this happy elephant (with its slightly scary Iron Giant (http://www.theweaponshop.com/irongiant.JPG) eyes...)?

Re: writing about music

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Lucy the Elephant (http://www.livejournal.com/users/lord_whimsy/22041.html#cutid1) has resided for over a century in the seaside town of Margate, NJ.

W