Chora and Topos –Matt Latham

Lane’s Discussion of place as Chora and Topos in part two of his book is particularly interesting to me. I never realized how we give meaning to otherwise meaningless places. His example involving McDonalds was beautifully crafted. I can completely understand where he is coming from. I have a lucky quarter given to me from my grandfather; it was given to him by his father, and is dated 1888. This quarter is now pretty valuable, but there are other ones like it out there. There is nothing special about the quarter except the value I attach to it. My quarter to me is Chora, while the other quarters are simply Topos. The other quarters are like mine, but they will never have the significance that mine does to me.