my heart says criminologist but my grades say mcdonald’s cashier.
“There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.”
— Anne Carson (via quotemadness)
One of the vulnerabilities of being visible is that when you’re visible you can be seen, and when you can be seen you can be touched and when you can be touched you can be hurt.
David Whyte - Poet
This is Shibam, Yemen
Also called “The Chicago of the Desert.”
Guess when those high-rises were built?
If you guessed the 1970s, you guessed wrong.
Way wrong.
Shibam is an estimated 1,700 years old.
Shibam, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is known for its distinct architecture. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud brick, and about 500 of them are tower blocks, which rise 5 to 11 stories high, with each floor having one or two rooms. While Shibam has been in existence for an estimated 1,700 years, most of the city’s houses originate from the 16th century. Many, though, have been rebuilt numerous times in the last few centuries.
Shibam is often called “the oldest skyscraper city in the world”. It is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. The city has some of the tallest mud buildings in the world, with some of them over 30 m (98 feet) high, thus being early high-rise apartment buildings. In order to protect the buildings from rain and erosion, the walls must be routinely maintained by applying fresh layers of mud.
The minaret of the Al-Muhdhar Mosque at the nearby city of Tarim is 53 metres (175 ft) high, and recognized as one of the tallest earth structures in the world.
We live in a world in which criminals and non-criminals are inseparably and profoundly bound together, in which criminals by their very existence, perform psychological functions for noncriminals—gratifying their antisocial impulses, reassuring them of their comparative innocence, and assuaging their guilt through vicarious punishment.
Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons
The Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment
By: Martha Grace Duncan
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