another person...just seeing the city
Cornerville .... exerpt from Joseph O'Neil
"...I see twin phone booths; a pole with those multiple parking signs that demand the application of advanced logic to figure out what the devil the parking situation actually is; and a pole with a yellow crosswalk sign showing a faintly Hitchcockian man and woman on foot (Why does each carry a kind of briefcase? Why do the figures look so weirdly lethargic? Most mysterious of all, which person looking at this sign has not already realized that there is a crosswalk here?). There are also a very cluttered pole on which are mounted two pedestrian lights and a vehicular traffic light; a one-way sign; a sign alerting us to the possible presence of blind persons; a no-left-turn sign; a chirping yellow gadget (presumably for the blind); and, at the pole’s overhanging extremity, a streetlight..."
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