- The Eastern decor. I'm not just talking Eastern influence, but pieces pulled straight from Japan and China. If such a central idea to Taliesin is it sprouted organically from the landscape, these pieces are a betrayal, a fetish. I'm using extreme language, you get it.
- The quotes carved into several rooms. Isaiah, Thomas Gray, Whitman, I don't think the text blends well. It's not the content of the text, it's that it's text.
- Structural insecurity. His bedroom is visibly caving in. I'm surprised he didn't know or didn't care about structural standards.
There were moments of wonder, entering a room that's more beautiful and more interesting than any you typically enter, imagining living there, implicitly imagining you're living there without your least favorite parts of your current life. One of the mini houses up by the windmill we passed and the guide said sometimes you can see guests in their robes drinking coffee... I longed for that. Throughout the estate one envisions pleasure and peace, pleasure via peace and peace via pleasure.
The tour was super. I did the four-hour option which was not too long. It was a joy.
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