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"In the morning trains ran on a raised line metres from my window. They were not in my city. I did not, of course, but I could have stared into the carriages--they were quite that close--and caught the eyes of foreign travellers. [...] In Beszél it was a quiet area, but the streets were crowded with those elsewhere. I unsaw them, but it took time to pick past them all."
— Jul 04, 2021 08:15AM
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Rachel
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"He threaded us like a suture in and out of Besźel and Ul Qoma." When looking at this text from a social justice lens, it romanticizes the importance of returning to the status quo, even if it's a status quo maintained through fear and intimidation.
— Jul 13, 2021 07:10AM
Rachel
is on page 70 of 336
"That is what foreigners rarely understand. A Besź dweller cannot walk a few paces next door into an [Ul Qoman] house without breach. But pass through Cupola Hall and she or he might leave Besźel, and [...] come back to exactly (corporeally) where they had been, but in another country, a tourist, [...] to a street that shared the latitude-longitude of their own address, a street they had never visited before."
— Jul 05, 2021 09:50AM
Rachel
is on page 43 of 336
"In typical political cliché, unificationists were split on many axes. [...] They had been accused of furtively propagandizing among refugees and new immigrants with limited expertise at seeing and unseating, at being in one particular city. The activists wanted to weaponize such urban uncertainty."
— Jul 04, 2021 10:04AM
