"The surprise homecoming party is an example of the useful architectural metaphor that [[Joshua Meyrowitz|Meyrowitz]] employs in No Sense of Place: it’s as if all of the walls around different social environments have come down. Unfortunately, **those rooms and walls were precisely what provided the spatial context for what was said in them, since they summoned a distinct audience out of the anonymous masses by only letting some people in**. In turn, that audience was able to make sense of each utterance by encountering it in the space where the sentiment grew, continuous with or adjacent to other related utterances." ([Location 2800](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07RHWKD7N&location=2800)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[context]], **Source** -- [[20251230081807 - B - How to Do Nothing]]