Le Corbusier's Cap

Le Corbusier wore a flatcar cap trimmed with ribbons and feathers. Le Corbusier had never made the acquaintance of the man in the hat, the shamble leg man, the legless man, the harridan (or her sister) the alms man, Dejesus, the witness or the manager of the Waymart. He was too busy working out Binge-angles and straight-lines to bother getting to know anyone, especially people with whom he had so little in common. He carried a slide-rule on a scabbard made especially for a two-sided measuring-stick. He wore a flatcar cap, of which he had several, to hide the hole on the top of his head. He could measure and weigh structural-structures with a slide-rule, never once having to revise or restructure his measurements. Le Corbusier claimed that the idea for the flatcar cap was his, and that anyone who made a competing claim, was not only deluded, but sorely mistaken. A flatcar cap (also referred to as a Denman’s cap) consists of an open, flat cap characterized by triangular flaps or wings that turn up on either side (errata: also called the Corbusier cap).