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in love and thinking about how the passage de pietons are not wide enough for tw…ill be affected by love. on-going research for no thesis and nothing. only love
Places described by a lover are like no other places on earth. To learn a city in this way-boulevards curving, canals, cornices overhead-in the naked embrace, the luxury of listening while your skin is listening. The city slips into your body. And then, if you are fortunate enough to arrive there for the first time with that same lover, or more fortunate still to arrive there after many years with the same lover-then you will enter the place as if in a dream. Your body will recognise the canals, the cornices, the curving boulevards; memory before sight. And that is a great gift, because we…
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