#open city

[whilereadingandwalking]

Open City by Teju Cole had all the ingredients for me: an ode to wandering, walking, exploring, dips in and out of history. I liked the content, but something in the execution had me struggling. It read like nonfiction but was a novel, but without much plot, usually not a problem for me but the tone made it hard for me to place, and ultimately I couldn’t connect with it like I wanted to.

[pet-goblin]

actually yh the right to decide life thru ivf abortion etc etc goes hand in hand with the right to decide death thru suicide

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Throngs of German citizens crowd the platforms of the Berlin train station shortly following the defeat of Germany by Allied forces, c. June, 1945

via reddit

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“We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.”

Teju Cole, from Open City (Random House, 2011)

[litteratured]

(via Marc Campbell)

[wellconstructedsentences]

My friend, who seemed to have read my thoughts, said, You have to set yourself a challenge, and you must find a way to meet it exactly, whether it is a parachute, or a dive from a cliff, or sitting perfectly still for an hour, and you must accomplish it in a beautiful way, of course.

Open City by Teju Cole

[litandlifequotes]

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float

Open City by Teju Cole

[ken-tai]

Manila 1945: Open City, Invasion

[actressyejin]

Baek Jang Mi smoking