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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Different Schooling


Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.
- Walter Benjamin

1 comment:

  1. It is what separates The Catcher In The Rye and Naked Lunch.

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