[A genuine sign.]
I photographed this sign in a medical building some time ago. Tororo’s photograph of a mirror under repair made me think of this photograph, look for it, and post it.
This sign must have been meant as a warning to employees with deconstructive tendencies. Hands off the signifier and the signified! Notice the tape at the top: this sign about a sign must have been a placeholder for an even more portentous signifier.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
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My favourite passage from Helene Hanff’s “The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street” is:
ReplyDeleteWrote three new pages and took them down to the [Reader's] Digest office in Berkeley Square and walked home by a lovely new route, straight up the Visitors' Map to the Regent's Park area and then over. Somewhere along the way I came upon a mews with a small sign on the entrance gate addressed to the passing world. The sign orders flatly:
“Commit No Nuisance”
I wonder how many signs in this world could be replaced by that one?
Steven
Good advice for us all.
ReplyDeleteI finally read TDoBS last winter after watching the Anne Bancroft movie and reading 84, Charing Cross Road again. I’ve had a copy for years but somehow had never read it. I’m glad she finally got to England.
"This sign about a sign must have been a placeholder for an even more portentous signifier."
ReplyDeleteSo insightful, thanks Michael!
And thank you for that mirror, Tororo.
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