Amazing, and very surreal. The third picture down gives me the terrors - look at how precarious they are! I'm not sure how quiet these would be - imagine all the noise from the street being funneled up then through the spit-thin walls. It seems more likely to be cacophonous, but perhaps so much so that it becomes white noise?
Come on Momus, you're basically begging to be mocked here! That kitchen/toilet combo looks hellish, quite apart from the mental stress of living somewhere you know you can get thrown out of at a moment's notice.
Maybe I'm weird, but the thing I keep finding myself imagining -- and it's a very positive fantasy -- is that I get to move into an old, poor Asian person's home the moment after they've died. I inherit all their stuff, and basically take over their life.
Rooftop dwellers as the new noble savages! Do you think these people actually want to live in these conditions? Do you think they wouldn't jump at the chance to have a nice two-bedroom flat with separate kitchen & loo?
Oh sure. But I'm not altogether convinced that what people want and what's good for either themselves or the world are 100% the same thing. I know that if I cpuld have whatever I wanted I'd probably become a moral, social and environmental disaster within weeks. Therein lies a slim Amis-slash-Voltaire-like volume of philosophical fiction. Shall propose to publishers Thursday. Thanks.
You're kind of doing a roundup of key Momus themes for your last week in residence, aren't you? Yesterday it was the evil of Anglo culture, today it's slum porn, tomorrow flatchested teenage Japanese girls, no doubt...
Ooh look, I’m twenty posts late but I finally had my first momus dream! I’m glad it was while the livejournal is on, at least! It went like this: Momus was touring Brazil and asked me for a place to sleep. So I had Momus in my house, in a mattress in the living room. Some friends from back in the country came and I could not think of any way to explain what Momus *is*, so I simply said, « This is Momus », and they were like, WTF
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