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The Beauty of Utility by Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser | 17/07/2014
I’m a great softie, especially for home and country matters: I can well-up just re-watching James McFadden’s wondrous goal for Scotland against France at the Parc des Princes, or at jangly pop genius Edwin Collins’ will to live and make music after a cerebral haemorrhage left him able to say only four phrases, repeated over and over: “yes”, “no”, “Grace Maxwell” (his wife’s name) and “the possibilities are endless” (the sweetest, and most practical, emergency toolkit of the soul I can imagine). Or when my old Mum tells me that bus drivers might just be the most important people in town, spreading good or ill-will as they go, and that Scotland must be becoming a nicer place as they seem more cheerful these days. So you might conclude that I’m a simple National Romantic, programmed by nature to grasp the opportunity to “image a better Scotland” full of cheery bus drivers, extraordinary footballing success and – in the world I inhabit – architects who will build a better Scotland by being set free to express themselves; but I’m also a pragmatist, with a deep suspicion of the Brigadoon this
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Our modern lives have become disconnected from our environment and our place in it. And since I am an architect, and my core competency is in the built environment, I thought I would try to describe my idea of belonging… through song.
For I like the stories song tells us about belonging, including what happens when the heart goes out of it. They’re pretty good at expressing this in American song and there’s no song so heartless as Gene Pitney’s “24 Hours from Tulsa”. One day away from her arms he sees somebody new and: “she took me to a café, she asked me if I would stay; I said; okay” and he’s gone, all ties severed, straight as an arrow, free as a bird.
I lived in America for a year and when I leaned out the window of the apartment in San Francisco where I first stayed I thought of him, and his heartless freedom, as I gazed down the endless, gridiron street, running straight as an arrow, free as a bird, out to the horizon.
That horizon was a hill, with some lovely towers on it, and I said to my new friends that I’d like to walk there. But they told me that though the towers were in a nice district there were less nice ones in-between, within which I should not walk; and I marvelled at the idea, new to me, that you could look right through whole districts instead of just