“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.” LongTwoRunningGirlThreeSeaStreetsColorRiversTownsCleanFishesSmellWideMilesBarsBoatNosesLakesFishingRoofCrowdedCurlsGasolineSteepWhiskySensuousNightclubsAphrodisiacGaudyPiersFishing BoatsMackerel Book:Advertisements for Myself Source: Advertisements for Myself
“The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.” KidsBeautifulWaterEnvironmentSeaStreetsAmountConcernRiversFishesCornersBoatLakesFishingSaltRecreationStreet CornersSalt WaterPinball Author:Rex Hunt
“The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.” EyeBlackDarkBehindsSeaStreetsColdDown AndHolesPassingPassingsAshesInkTorchesSteepCanyonsSquids Book:The Road Source: The Road
“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in” WorldDoeSoulFacesNightCitiesWiseSeaStreetsBattleShapesQuietDrawsShotsHorseTradeDearBonesForestsGatesCampsPaleBloodyHuntersInvitedNapsCartsDear FriendHoundsWarpWeavers Book:Suttree Source: Suttree
“New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.” PeopleMeanNightWaterLevelsSeaFeetStreetsSolutionsWeightHolesQuartersFloatingNew OrleansCemeteryCoffinsStormyVaultsFrench QuarterStormy Nights Author:James Cagney
“I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.” EnoughCitiesSeaStreetsNew YorkResearchWideUmbrellaIconicSidewalkCanyons Author:Saschka Unseld
“In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.” WorldSeaStreetsThousandTenNeighborMilesIslandsRisingMiles AwayThousand Miles Author:Achim Steiner
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.” DreamEyeSleepSecretBehindsSeaStreetsBonesBagsDreamerSaltBobAshesShellsFeathersJuiceWrecksWhalesSnowflakeMoonshineSaliva Book:Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices Source: Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices