{"id":4171,"date":"2009-04-15T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/04\/15\/one-book-the-junction-victorians-and-their-bricks\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:38:37","slug":"one-book-the-junction-victorians-and-their-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/04\/15\/one-book-the-junction-victorians-and-their-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"One Book: The Junction &#8212; Victorians and their Bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/177\/411765650_3a2587ebcb.jpg\" alt=\"Pigeons in the Junction\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"332\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-one-book.gif\" height=\"63\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editors Note<\/strong>: Spacing is pleased to be participating in the Toronto Public Library&#8217;s One Book program again this year. This month the library hopes the whole city will start reading Loyalty Management, a poetry book by Glenn Downie, set in part in the Junction neighbourhood. Throughout the month Spacing Toronto will present a series of posts exploring the book.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">From the poem &#8220;Victorians&#8221; in Glen Downie&#8217;s <em>Loyalty Management<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Within the unrelenting monotony<br \/>\nof one flat red brick on another<br \/>\nthe eye alights<br \/>\ngratefully<br \/>\non small flourishes:<br \/>\na fan of verticals over a window<br \/>\nthe angling out of<br \/>\ncorners like sharp-edged<br \/>\nteeth \u00a0 In sweat-stained<br \/>\nsummer drudgery<br \/>\nwithout a cold beer in hand \u00a0 such<br \/>\ntricks were the mason&#8217;s play<br \/>\nhis material pleasure<br \/>\n&amp; lasting whisper to future<br \/>\ngenerations: brick<br \/>\ntalking about brick<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Like many of the Torontonians I&#8217;ve come to know in my life, I came to Toronto sometime after my birth. And, like many such adoptive Torontonians, it took me a while to see the beauty in the city. On a grey midwinter day that&#8217;s understandable, but the spring reminds me of why the city continues to hold its allure as time passes. It just never gets old, even as it ages. And so much of it is in the details, as Downie notes in &#8220;Victorians.&#8221; Places in the Junction like the photo above remind me of the fanwork that Downie describes above those old Victorian windows . The conversations that take place between bricks, let alone the conversations that we have on the bricks, give Toronto its endless quality. Places like this one are in constant dialogue with the more rigid formality of building frontage:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/10\/11253994_cfb2091ea1.jpg\" alt=\"Junction alleyway\" border=\"0\" height=\"375\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You will likely never see all of the alleyways and doorways in this city &#8212; it&#8217;s a near impossibility. But you never know when some Victorian or Edwardian mason, back during the prohibition era about which Downie is writing here, might have left a little sign or a token to you in their brickwork. The city is all around us, winking.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Top photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/chesh2000\/\">Jay Goldman<\/a>, bottom by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/steve-n-leona\/\">Steven Burke<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Editors Note: Spacing is pleased to be participating in the Toronto Public Library&#8217;s One Book program again this year. This month the library hopes the whole city will start reading Loyalty Management, a poetry book by Glenn Downie, set in part in the Junction neighbourhood. Throughout the month Spacing Toronto will present a series<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/04\/15\/one-book-the-junction-victorians-and-their-bricks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;One Book: The Junction &#8212; Victorians and their Bricks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4067,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759],"tags":[11846,11908,93,11907,19],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-glen-downie","tag-jay-goldman","tag-one-book-loyalty-management","tag-steven-burke","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One Book: The Junction - Victorians and their Bricks - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/04\/15\/one-book-the-junction-victorians-and-their-bricks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Book: The Junction - Victorians and their Bricks - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Editors Note: Spacing is pleased to be participating in the Toronto Public Library&#8217;s One Book program again this year. 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