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Naked Cities Journal attempts to bring together a number of passions that have captivated me over a lifetime: a love of exploring the urban landscape and its extraordinarily diverse range of places and spaces; a love of journeys both internal and external; a love of keeping writer’s notebooks; and a love of Urban Studies an intellectual discipline – Marcus D. Niski
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looking for hemingway, the lost generation, in the cafés–part 2 — un Voyageur

In 1971 I traveled to Paris for the first time. I mentioned finding a Balzac-like pension where I could stay for a couple of months that was around the corner from a former Hemingway apartment on rue Notre Dames des Champs and within easy walking distance from rue de Fleurus, the apartment of Gertrude Stein […]

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The dance — memory of a bird (and a thousand words)

« The art of living is based on rhythm, on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all the aspects of life, good and bad, right and wrong, yours and mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a […]

Henry Miller, “the wisdom of the heart”. In “the wisdom of the heart”. New York: New Directions, 1966, p. 32-33.

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Olav H. Hauge – Un poème chaque jour — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD

Je veux écrire chaque jour un poème, chaque jour. Ce doit être facile. Browning s’y était mis, il faisait des rimes et battait la mesure avec ses sourcils en broussaille. Donc, un poème par jour. Quelque chose te surprend quelque chose arrive quelque chose attire ton attention. – Il fait jour, je me lève avec […]

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