The mortifying ordeal of being known A Fragment by Tim Kreider opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known. lovehumanity
Anatomical Drawings of Staircase Spaces A Book by Tomoyuki Tanaka ShibuyaDetailPlatformsSpiralDescent+3 More Back to the Drawing BoardSection-perspective drawingKengo Kuma's sketches architecturedrawingtransportationart
Platforms Show image 0 Show image 1 Original by Tanaka, and my own digital tracing. Tablets have caught up