The Chronicle‘s Mike Snyder today updates us on Mayor White’s new downtown hobo destination park, which will be named on Monday:
The explorer archetype is a powerful theme in classical literature, from Odysseus’ quest to find his way home in Homer’s Odyssey to the narrator’s search for spiritual revelation in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
These ideas might seem a bit high-concept for choosing the name of a 12-acre park in downtown Houston….
Yes.
There’s more:
“The personality that we realized that we’re going after is one of exploration with kind of a dash of magic thrown in,” said Guy Hagstette, the conservancy’s park director.
Accordingly, the firm the conservancy hired to help select a name settled on the explorer as the primary archetype for the park, with the magician as a secondary theme.
Archetype? Dante? Homer?
At least the firm gave the park’s busybodies some fancy-schmancy soundbites to go with what was likely a hefty bill for its consulting services.
Prizes will be awarded tomorrow:
The entrant whose name is selected will win dinner for two at a park restaurant, a framed political cartoon by Houston Chronicle cartoonist Nick Anderson and a collection of Houston Astros merchandise.
Ah, they’re not offering a video iPod and one of Anderson’s bizarre animations? THAT would have been archetypically world-class! The iPod, not the animation. The Astros gear is pretty cool, though.
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