Author:  Iain Pears
Book:    Arcadia
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The result was most peculiar, and it took a lot of work to get it laid out properly, but first tests were satisfactory. I called it "Momentum" and told anyone who saw it that it was a biting critique of modernity, representing how the culture of the past {the pergola} was contaminated and overwhelmed by the detritus of consumerist industrialism that was covering over the elegance of civilisation with mass-produced conformity. It was thus both a radical critique of capitalism and a nostalgic vision of traditional society. The essence of the concept lay in the inherent tension that existed between the two competing visions. The explanation, which sounded a lot better in French, was generally met with a look of panic and a rapid change of subject, which was just what I wanted.

( Iain Pears )
[ Arcadia ]
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