Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.
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Helen Keller, Midstream: My Later Life (via liquidnight)
I like the idea of New York as a city that reinforces one’s physicality. Certainly you can feel it humming in your bones.
