Nick’s Reviews > Jazz > Status Update

"They stood around the depot , camped in fields on the edge of the road in clusters until shooed away for being the blight that had been visited upon them - for reflecting like still water the disconsolateness they certainly felt, and for reminding others about the wages sin paid out to the laborers."

"And when spring comes to the City people notice one another in the road; notice the strangers with whom they share aisles and tables and the space where intimate garments are laundered. Going in and out, in and out the same door, they handle the handle; on trolleys and park benches they settle thighs on a seat in which hundreds have done it too... it's a condition, the range of what an artful City can do."

"Up there, in that part of the City - which is the part they came for - the right tune whistled in a doorway or lifting up from the circles and grooves of a record can change the weather. From freezing to hot to cool."