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I have tried to avoid creating....
....a professional:
http://oddURL.paddedwhitespace.org,
...the ten thousand invisible text links to who knows what on the orange and white tiles of:
www.the-tabloid.com
...some unvisited:
www386.on_the_end_of.an/infinite/URL/my&_Little#FrontPage%20Page
...or worst of all:
www.gimme-money-bannermania.net
(with all the text as images).
Yes, you can relax and even enable your images as there are no adverts anywhere on this site.
Only me gibbering.
...the timewarps - watching the sun leap up over the mountains and fizzle out over the other side of the sky while I resuscitate Netscape for the hundredth time since the sun rose and offer the same script to its runtime engine to see if it likes it any better. It finally did! A strange Zen exercise. And a way of finding out just how little sleep I can live with and how stiff my elbows can get and still work.
My father produced some startling and consummate furniture for the home in which I grew up - furniture which I took very much for granted, never appreciating its originality, until my own work had taken me into a sufficient diversity of other homes. My mother would have rather had quick-and-easy solutions than his originality. He destroyed almost all his work when conflict between him and my mother became the overriding force in his life. Sadly, I was guilty of casting aspersions upon it too, when the style of the times moved on from The Sixties, not yet appreciating that his work had more than a style.
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I refer to The Shrubbery of the cliff gardens of Westcliff-on-Sea, on the Thames estuary, Essex, England.
Westcliff shrubberies were a place we frequently had a picnic during the day on special shopping trips to the seaside town.
During the school summer holidays, The Shrubbery remained open till well after dusk, for the public to view in conjunction with the summer "illuminations" on the promenade. The shrubbery illuminations were strongly biased towards connoisseurs of fairytales (I didn't say children!)
with their tableaux of castles, dwarves, princes, princesses, witches and glowing mushrooms.
Some of the exhibits were even made to move - my memory in combination with my imagination comes up with
a dwarf hammering a horseshoe and little shutters opened by a small maiden who then leans out of the glowing interior of her tower....
Having dropped you in all that, I must now haul you out by revealing that I would never attempt to recreate the same thing,
which has become the province of Disney and his following....
What captivated me as a child, and still does, was not predominantly the endearing fairytale archetypes,
but the experience of being in a dark tranquil garden with the foci of the illuminations and the interstitial excitement of
exploring a zone of steep and criss-crossing paths and steps under trees that was normally closed at dusk.
I can remember a similar childhood enthralment, during a late evening break on a long road journey, in the gardens of a tavern.
Under the almost invisibly dark hanging fronds of pine trees, simple coloured festoon lamps reflected between black ripples on
a pond and on the patina of slate crazy paving.
C S Lewis conjures a similar feeling in the wardrobe leading to the pine forest with the lamp at the beginning of
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Frames break up the screen area into small rectilinear blocks whereas many of the images on the site demand large areas.
They are tedious and confusing to use when they all have scrollbars.
In some places, here, I am also trying to get beyond rectilinearity.
The pages I wish to present to you vary considerably in size of window required.
In my explorations, I found that browsers do not resize a single window when flitting back and forth between pages displayed in it.
This means that sometimes large areas of the screen would be wasted, or you would often need to resize the window yourself.
There is an unscripted version of the site which you will find presented to you if you attempt to browse it without scripting enabled.
If you really would like just a single window, try switching off your browser scripting and look at the site!
That's the end of the about details....
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