Tuesday, February 16, 2010

THE FENCE CONTROVERSY AND THE VANCOUVER OLYMPIC CAULDRON

POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL

See what up close?

Some pipes with gas-fed flames at the end?

What a terrible aesthetic deprivation that is.

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"The cauldron will be open to the public Monday March 1st..."

I think that says it all, about the torch, about the flame, about this ugly pile of ductwork, and about the Olympic nonsense.

The cauldron will be open - a phrase right out of cheap science fiction movie.

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"...all we get for the symbol of the games is a chain link fence"

Not quite.

You get a chain-link fence with a pile of galvinized ductwork behind it belching flames.

The image, to my mind, is nothing so much as some part of a factory or sour-gas plant.