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[I]t is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth. ↗
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. ↗
Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment. ↗
People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way. ↗
كلما اقتفيتَ خطاك في المدن التي تدخلها للمرة الأولى عثرتَ على شيء فيك لم تكن اهتديتَ إليه في المدن التي وراءك ↗
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. ↗
