You won't find the beautiful ramshackled English cottage garden here. These days, the nouveaux riches hire builders to put up original houses for them. Every house is different, each uglier than the next. A motley assortment of kitsch, complete with swimming pools, arched windows, turrets and coach lanterns. Just as the ignoramus with his internet essay, you cannot substitute variety of sources for not having a cohesive idea of your own.
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Without an overall picture, you are living by numbers that don't add up. Most people can handle the colouring book approach to life. For many, a blank piece of paper is not a useful starting point. It just makes you realise you cannot draw as well as the next person. So you find the one thing you are reasonably good at, and stick to it.