“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty nor sudden money, nor the moonlight nor right or wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”
- Ernest Hemingway
2
Adriana: I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night.
Gil: No, you can’t, you couldn’t pick one. I mean I can give you a checkmate argument for each side. You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights, I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.
1
“To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.”
- Jan Morris
Damascus 2013
2
“Just around the corner,
There’s a rainbow in the sky.
So let’s have another cup o’ coffee,
And let’s have another piece o’ pie.”
~Irving Berlin, 1932
8
Even in the middle of a blizzard, Montreal construction crews will continue building things…
Canadian Aviation and Space Museum
Ottawa, Canada
Architecture team: ARCOP Group
Tiger Cat
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
- Diogenes
