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Monday, August 8, 2011

Rabbit Holes

Anita's Way

"New York (and this is the source of its charm and its peculiar fascination) was then a city where anything seemed possible. Like the urban fabric, the social and cultural fabric was riddled with holes. All you had to do was pick one and slip through if, like Alice, you wanted to get to the other side of the looking glass and find worlds so enchanting that they seemed unreal."
Claude Lévi-Strauss, The View from Afar

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Collection of Villages

Central Park

"New York was not a city but, on the colossal scale whose measure one can take only by setting foot in the New World, an agglomeration of villages. In each of these an inhabitant could have spent his life without ever leaving except to go to work."
Claude Lévi-Strauss, The View from Afar