“Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.” CountryUniverseLanguageSecretCitiesKnownForeverEventsVisibleConspiracyOutlines Author:M. John Harrison
“Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.” WayDreamCitiesVisionWestEastParisPrimeSiteImitationUneasyHallucinationsViennaBudapest Author:M. John Harrison
“At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.” HeartGirlLeftHoursCitiesColdSeatsSteelInsecureStressedCapsLeatherCursedArmourCity Girl Book:Viriconium Source: Viriconium
