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How to conjure up a picture, for instance, of a town
A soul less place without life
without pigeons, without any trees or gardens, where you never hear the beat of wings or the rustle of leaves—a thoroughly negative place,
negative, boring, blah place
no option but to survive those days of fire indoors, behind closed shutters.
this could hacve been written today for the california fires
Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’s acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.
And tourism fails at people having this eperience
Our citizens word hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, “doing business.”
the point of working is getting rich
It will then be obvious what discomfort attends death, even modern death, when it waylays you under such conditions in a dry
the problems & pains of dying in modern times
place.
since habits are precisely what our town encourages, all is for the best.
air of what used to be called a man of the world, and something of an undertaker’s assistant.
What an excellent description- a man of the world has the stench of death with him.
he gave the impression of someone who could keep his end up in any circumstances.
I wish more of us were this way
