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An Inflammation of Place
- caleb-allen 7y agoI really enjoyed reading this. It's interesting to see how our problems today really aren't new, and this seems to be a unique perspective on that. Thanks for the submission!
- cafard 7y ago"New York at the present time is not reproducing itself. We are all living swiftly, dying swiftly. Were it not for the influx from out of town the decrease in population would soon be noted. But as it is, for one New Yorker that dies two strangers take up their abode in the city, and thus the loss is not noticed. " In E.M. Forster's novel The Longest Journey, there appears "There's no such thing as a Londoner. He's only a country man on the road to sterility." I imagine that demographers would regard both as exaggerations for effect.