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the Horseshoe Curve,
“The result is a sad jumble of shops, booths, and bazaars often unpleasing in themselves and incongruous when taken together.”
An ode to Orange Park, Florida.
And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. “Having seen it,” Rudyard Kipling wrote, “I desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.”
sausages*
The Chicago Tribune reported that increasing turbulence in global markets had raised concerns in London that a recession, even a full-blown “panic,”
I wonder to myself
choirboy
<3
“Do you hear that?” he whispered. “Isn’t it wonderful? That’s what I call music.”
“I was born with the devil in me,” he wrote. “I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
Danzig voice: maaatha’of merrrrcy
thousands of other people, many of them also bicyclists.
Deep sigh
North and Milwaukee Avenues on Chicago’s North Side,
Deeper sigh
“I can only conclude now that I am older and more used up than I had supposed.”
George Washington Gale Ferris.
Leo meme
He had deep blue eyes with large pupils and an unwrinkled face. He attributed his youthful aspect to a heavy dose of morning coffee.
The White City had drawn men and protected them; the Black City now welcomed them back, on the eve of winter, with filth, starvation, and violence.
That toddlin town.
“You’ll see it lovely. I never will. But it will be lovely.”
Sweet home, Chicago.
