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 […]
Places Quotes
(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 […]
I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.
It is melancholy to sit on the piled stones amidst the wreck of this wonderful edifice (the Ramaseum), where violence inconceivable to us has been used to destroy what art inconceivable to us has erected. What a rebuke to the vanity of succeeding ages is here! What have we been about, to imagine men in […]
South Dakota: A part of hell with the fires burnt out.
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake, and behind the facade every type of dubiousness. (Chicago)
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. (Dame Edna)
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
The first thing that strikes an Englishman about the landscape of New Zealand is the absence of atmosphere. The jagged hills stand out sharp against the clear sky like a photograph seen through a stereoscope. There are no half-lights, no melting mist or wreathing haze, no vague distances.
