Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Yahoo! News - Living in the clouds
Here is a wonderfully literary article sent my way by Fred Pilot. It is from the San Diego Daily Transcript, the legal newspaper for SD. Note the use of metaphor, imagery, and other things that tell you somebody with a background in English lit wrote it. Not your typical J-school grad, I'll wager.

Hundreds of condominium owners in San Diego own something nobody can see because it isn't really there. It's a fictional cloud in the sky designated as the common area.

The cube of airspace is located 50 feet from the ground above the property. Some people define it as a prism of air, others, a cone or a disk. The cloud is one foot thick and covers the entire property. Cloud condo owners have a shared interest in the airspace and are responsible for its maintenance.

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