Western Metropolis Rhapsody

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“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)