Original artwork, not a still
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ‧ 1988
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, “as pretty as an airport.” Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage condemns the appearance of airports, escalating from ugly to ugliness that seems deliberately achieved. Its claim about every language adds comic exaggeration to an aesthetic judgment rather than documenting a linguistic survey.
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