Showing posts with label christopher hitchens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christopher hitchens. Show all posts

Friday, December 16, 2011

Tensile Excitement

Roosevelt Island Tram

"There was, rather, a tensile excitement in that air which made one think — made me think for many years — that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted."
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Fiesta of Distraction

Bowery

"On the streets of New York one's visual sense was constantly assailed and tortured by a fiesta of distraction."
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22