[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 it, 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:
Wrote 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.
I 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."
So insightful, thanks Michael!
And thank you for that mirror, Tororo.
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