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Thursday, April 03, 2003
A beautifully simple description from You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers... "The sun was everywhere and the landscape went curvy. Green hills, red hills, then hills covered in thin-trunked mop-topped trees. Then a huge red city to the left of the road, Benguérir, red like barns, of clay and stone, ancient, unchanged and terrifying, low-lying and endless. The land was American southwest. Then it was wholly Mediterranean - olive trees, bare low hills. It was so green! Soft curves and such green. I had never lived anywhere with this kind of drama. Cities are billed as drama-filled but are in fact almost totally safe, are so like being constantly indoors - too many small lights and heavy windows and perfect corners. Yes there is danger from other humans hiding in dark triangles but here! Here there is swooping. Here there are falling rocks. Here are underwater sorts of lines covered in green. Here you picture tidal waves or quickly moving glaciers." 
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