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“That thing we call a place is the intersection of many changing forces passing through, whirling around, mixing, dissolving, and exploding in a fixed location. To write about a place is to acknowledge that phenomena often treated separately - ecology, democracy, culture, storytelling, urban design, individual life histories and collective endeavors - coexist. They coexist geographically, spatially, in place, and to understand a place is to engage with braided narratives and sui generis explorations”
― Rebecca Solnit, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas

“As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate.”
― Steve Erickson, Shadowbahn

“I asked him had he ever seen this Anna Gloria? Was she real, or was she only allegorical?
"That depends," he said. "What is the difference?”
― Aaron Thier, Mr. Eternity

“I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.”
― Joan Didion, South and West: From a Notebook