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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
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Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was…
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Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but…
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the…
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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out…
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My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I…
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At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city…
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
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