Neil Morneau’s Reviews > Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World > Status Update

“no matter how it tries, the skyscraper hasn’t yet conquered the forest’s spirit, it’s immensity, it’s melancholy.”

“I stagger outside, delighted to finally be breathing fresh air. I like the night and sky more than the gods of man.”

While traveling from NY city to Canada, through the Catskill/Adirondack mountains.

“There, in nature’s silence, amid the room’s simplicity, amid the remoteness from civilization, he decides to stay for good, to cut all ties with what his life was and never again let anyone know he’s alive.”

“We sail through New York harbor. A tremendous site despite, or because of, the fog. Order, power, economic strength, they’re all here. The heart trembles before so much remarkable inhumanity.”