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“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.”
― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
“After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests...more
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― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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Recentley I was introduced to Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak (Saga of Darren Shan) Series...and w…more
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Water for Urban Areas: Challenges and Perspectives (Juha I. Uitto & Asit K. Biswas, eds.)
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