...[P]eople are more sociable, the more they have some tangible barriers between them, just as they need specific places in public whose sole purpose is to bring them together...[H]uman beings need to have some distance from intimate observation by others in order to feel sociable.
The Fall of Public Man (1977)
Richard Sennett
p.15
Friday, 28 August 2009
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