Today, while waiting for the bus at Peabody, a music professor and I got to talking. He mused in his strong Russian accent about the many segmented things around us, pointing to the crosswalk near George Washington's monument. "There are even lines, segments, to cross a street." From there, he swerved to a discussion about reckless driving. When he was in Russia last, he had this "ridiculous idea" that he could simply go to the police and ask them to make the road signs more evident. But then he realized this was a foolish hope, and besides, why should we segment something even more? Everything around us is already segmented- societal tiers, crosswalks, windows on a bus, cafeteria tables, urinals. Still, maybe The Beatles had it right. Maybe 4 guys walking across a segmented street isn't so bad after all, if great music comes from it. Or wait...maybe I meant The Simpsons?
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