Comments on: the freedom we are chasing is a prison http://www.verhext.com/the-freedom-we-are-chasing-is-a-prison magic is as magic does Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:35:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: verhext http://www.verhext.com/the-freedom-we-are-chasing-is-a-prison/comment-page-1#comment-429 verhext Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:25:39 +0000 http://www.verhext.com/?p=969#comment-429 the paperwork i can deal with, it's the magically summoning tens of thousands of dollars i feel may throw a wrench into my home dreams ;D i do wonder though, does a 30 year mortgage turn a dream into a prison?? i worry that i would consistently be able to come up with a huge amount every month, especially here. sigh. someday, at least. and if not, then teeny no-electricity cabins in the woods. the paperwork i can deal with, it’s the magically summoning tens of thousands of dollars i feel may throw a wrench into my home dreams ;D

i do wonder though, does a 30 year mortgage turn a dream into a prison?? i worry that i would consistently be able to come up with a huge amount every month, especially here.

sigh. someday, at least. and if not, then teeny no-electricity cabins in the woods.

]]> By: roxi http://www.verhext.com/the-freedom-we-are-chasing-is-a-prison/comment-page-1#comment-428 roxi Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:20:02 +0000 http://www.verhext.com/?p=969#comment-428 i am obsessed with houses as well... not only having one one day, but writing about them & looking at how the house has a manifested body in some fiction (shirley jackson, ann quin's berg, any gothic novel). in most of these cases the house functions as repressive space, embodying all these ideas about limiting rather than subverting domesticity. but the house is just a container, a vessel for whatever you can dream up to fill it with. how to even have one to start is a complete mystery. it seems like a lot of people i know have been buying houses & reading about their struggles gives me an ache... it looks like such a miserable process. i hate paperwork. i am obsessed with houses as well… not only having one one day, but writing about them & looking at how the house has a manifested body in some fiction (shirley jackson, ann quin’s berg, any gothic novel). in most of these cases the house functions as repressive space, embodying all these ideas about limiting rather than subverting domesticity. but the house is just a container, a vessel for whatever you can dream up to fill it with. how to even have one to start is a complete mystery. it seems like a lot of people i know have been buying houses & reading about their struggles gives me an ache… it looks like such a miserable process. i hate paperwork.

]]> By: verhext http://www.verhext.com/the-freedom-we-are-chasing-is-a-prison/comment-page-1#comment-386 verhext Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:58:57 +0000 http://www.verhext.com/?p=969#comment-386 Where were you building? Bread & Puppet? Building cottages? Are you sure you aren't a secret Vermonter? Where were you building? Bread & Puppet? Building cottages? Are you sure you aren’t a secret Vermonter?

]]> By: Larisa http://www.verhext.com/the-freedom-we-are-chasing-is-a-prison/comment-page-1#comment-385 Larisa Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:33:11 +0000 http://www.verhext.com/?p=969#comment-385 I dream of the same, a small housie (as my German friend calls it) to call my own. It hurts even more that I spent months of the past year apprenticing in building, and though it was beautiful, I want to transfer that same tenderness to the walls of my own warm cottage some day, shelves for my own brews, my books and the art it cheers me to see above my stove. We will get there! I dream of the same, a small housie (as my German friend calls it) to call my own. It hurts even more that I spent months of the past year apprenticing in building, and though it was beautiful, I want to transfer that same tenderness to the walls of my own warm cottage some day, shelves for my own brews, my books and the art it cheers me to see above my stove. We will get there!

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