January saw me traveling between cities and meeting with different folks.
After seeing the arrival of a new year with Angelica, I was on an early train to New York City, where I was subsequently swallowed into the pit of concrete and artificiality. Strange, that humans see the obstruction of nature and natural light as acceptable in order to be city dwellers, where towers of glass and steel and brick trap us like rats in a hell-like enclosure.
The Dutch architectural theorist and urbanist, Rem Koolaas writes in his book Delirious New York - "the metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires." This would be truly remarkable only if man's fabrications in pursuit of desire constructed morality at the foundation of such a fantastic dream, but then that would be a contradiction for the most part.
New Jersey, on the opposite side, sits in lowly depression just the same.
And then off to Philadelphia.
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