Morocco is like a tree nourished by roots deep in the soil of Africa which breathes through foliage rustling to the winds of Europe. Yet Morocco’s existence is not only vertical. Horizontally it looks to the East, with which it is bound by ties of religion and culture. Even if we wished to sever those […]
Places Quotes
Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever […]
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
Amsterdam did not answer our expectations; it is a kind of paltry, rubbishy Venice. (1826)
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings In the ruins of her ice water mansion Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams, The island and bays are for sportsmen. And farther below Lake Ontario Takes in what Lake Erie can send her And the iron boats go as the mariners all know With the gales of […]
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.
From Hamlet to Kierkegaard, the word “Danish” has been synonymous with fun, fun, fun… Who else would have the sense of humor to stuff prunes and toecheese into lumps of wet dough and serve it to you for breakfast?… Let’s hear it for those those very wonderful kooky, very crazy, very whacky, very witty Danes! […]
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
Nelson Algren says living there (Chicago) is like being married to a woman with a broken nose: there may be lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real.
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me.
