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Longvue Asylum. I'm kinda partial to this moniker for the place I'm at this moment.
Permit me to parse the name. Longvue melds two words, long and vue. The first is a well recognized simple English language word - though it means different things usually dependent on context. In this case it more refers to the dimension of time rather than the horizontal space dimension. For completeness long is quite similarly recognizable in the French language.
Vue is a French word, but a homologue of the English word of the same meaning. Given the preferred dimension for 'long', and applying it to view, it sorta means 'farsighted', or looking relatively further distant in time. Looking is as in 'imagining'. I am not clairvoyant - another melding of two words one of which is recognizable in English.
I am an advocate, big time, of the longvue.
I think the world would be a better place if more folk considered the longvue when making or considering their choices.
This place, 4500 Aspdin Rd., is intended to be an exemplar of the longvue.
Whimsically it should have some features with a thousand year design horizon.
That's the longvue I'm talking about.
Asylum has a couple of meanings in english. One relates to a part time gig I hold, CCB adjudicator. Asylum can have a pejorative tense. A synonym of 'nut house', or crazy house.
But I employ it in the sense of retreat or rest and rejuvenate place. A get away to place.
And as of today, I have a working fiber link to the internet, and a VPN, and that allows me to post this directly in near real time.
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