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The Pacific always strikes me as a pallid, unlovable sort of ocean, and when it is associated with cold, dank and unpainted wood it seems a thing of empty disenchantment, not worth trying to understand, like one of those spurious mysteries that are really not mysteries at all.
— Apr 12, 2021 09:06PM
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The favorite epithet of Istanbul seems to be yok, which appears to be a sort of general purpose discouragement, to imply that it can't be done, she isn't home, the shop's shut, the train's left, take it or leave it, you can't come this way or there's no good making a fuss about it, that's the way it is.
— Apr 10, 2021 10:15PM
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Regret always, for Beirut is a prodigy of the second class -- a sideline city, never (as the literary critics like to say) very deeply engagé. It stands on the rim of the Arab world, peering inside with a wry and skeptical detachment, and its conscience is rudimentary.
— Apr 09, 2021 08:59PM
