Today morning, walking in a street in my neighborhood i found out there was a building burnt almost to the ground. The fire started around 1 AM, roughly I hour before I went to sleep, without noticing anything. I was told that the firemen came with their sirens off, according to new regulations about night-time interventions, and extinguished the fire without causing any din.... dans le grand silence de la nuit provenale.
At the same time, I felt a bit freaked out and totally irrational for being freaked out with that..... As if I was nostalgic of a time when the whole neighborhood would have gone out in the street dressed in pajamas for watching the house burning. Anyway, I wonder... if asked if I would prefer, not being disturbed by the firemen's alarm, or not being made aware that there is a house on fire near to mine, is it so obvious I would have chosed the first?
After all, maybe I'm just being nostalgic of a time I could have watched houses burning, dressed in pajamas.
That's what happened last night.
At the same time, I felt a bit freaked out and totally irrational for being freaked out with that..... As if I was nostalgic of a time when the whole neighborhood would have gone out in the street dressed in pajamas for watching the house burning. Anyway, I wonder... if asked if I would prefer, not being disturbed by the firemen's alarm, or not being made aware that there is a house on fire near to mine, is it so obvious I would have chosed the first?
After all, maybe I'm just being nostalgic of a time I could have watched houses burning, dressed in pajamas.
That's what happened last night.
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Its been rebuilt every time. Does that tell us more about the resilience of the owner and his spirit or about the capitalistic ideals which stand behind such a venture?