Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me.
Places Quotes
Somewhat back from the village street Stands the old fashioned country-seat. Across its antique portico Tall poplars their shadows throw; And from its ancient station in the hall An ancient timepiece says to all, – Forever – never! Never – forever!
Prague seemed – it still seems, after many rival cities – not only one of the most beautiful places in the world, but one of the strangest. Fear, piety, zeal, strife and pride, tempered in the end by the milder impulses of munificence and learning and “doucer de vivre”, had flung up an unusual array […]
In some Places, as in Amsterdam, the Foundation costs more than the Superstructure, for the Ground being soft, they are constrained to ram in huge stakes of Timber (with Wool about it to preserve it from Putrefaction) till they come to a firm Basis; so that, as one said, Whosoever could see Amsterdam under ground […]
Spain is the only country where death is the national spectacle. (bullfighting)
Last week, I went to Philidelphia, but it was closed.
In America, you go out, you walk across the country. You discover paradise. In Australia, you walk across the country, and you find absolutely nothing. And then you die.
Korea hangs like a lumpy phallus between the sprawling thighs of Manchuria and the Sea of Japan. Roughly the size of England and Scotland, it was, in 1950, the home of about twenty million people, most of whom lived in the south. The peninsula has sometimes been called “The Hermit Kingdom,” and most visitors have […]
(The ice) extended east and west far beyond the reach of our sight, while the southern half of the horizon was illuminated by rays of light which were reflected from the ice to a considerable height… It was indeed my opinion that this ice extends quite to the Pole (South), or perhaps joins to some […]
It (Las Vegas) is highwayman and whore on the desert road, a city both veneer and venereal, dedicated to waste and excess, heartless and without a heart; a town where, probably, nothing good or worthwhile has ever happened, nor ever will… As I set off I did not look back in case I was struck […]
