#223, Spokane, WA
Sometimes the alphabet gets jealous of all this itinerant number-hunting of mine and decides it's going to sneak its way into my photographs. After all, I'm a writer, not a number-cruncher. Shouldn't I show the alphabet a little love on these typographical scavenger hunts?
Looking for shapes of letters in doorways, columns, scaffolds, and window panes is a common exercise for beginning architecture students, and while I haven't tested it beyond a few accidental discoveries like this "A", I'm curious if, from a writer's perspective, it would interest me or just frustrate me. I can see how it could quickly degenerate from a harmless game into a Hitchcockian psychological thriller with me as its victim. All of a sudden, the city is one big disorganized keyboard, and I'm trying to hunt-and-peck my way through it, searching desperately for letters, never mind words, never mind paragraphs that make any kind of sense at all.
After a lifetime of writing, I've grown quite comfortable with QWERTY, right where I know I can find it.
4 comments:
It's AZERTY here in France!
I like this one - my initial!
The balance in this photo is amazing. Remember when you were a child and you folded a piece of paper in half and painted your name on one side, folded the paper, and you name came out in mirror writing on the other side? If you put a line down the middle of this photo, it would look like this.
I think the letter quest would become Hitchcockian rather quickly. Can't you just hear the music in the background?
Adam - Glad you like the "A" - it's yours. And AZERTY! I forgot that it shifts from country to country. Trying to compose an email in Belgium was a real joy. Do you at least have the &7 key in your line of numerals, I hope?
GDP - Oh, man, if I could hear Hitchcockian music in my head a little less... Great comparison, though. And thanks for your comment on the 218. I'm pleased the fish lived up to your expectations, finaccuracies and all. (Couldn't resist.)
Very masculine.
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