Tag: cities
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52and40/37 White Noise
I love the odd day in Glasgow. As familiarity grows, I’m beginning to link the city up with maps, memories, family folklore and reference points in the past, present and future. I like the break from Edinburgh’s tourism too, when I’m off west. Interactions with people and the pavement feel markedly more real and more easily…
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52and39/48 Your People
Strangers are stranger, in someone else’s city. The smokey stains that gather on stonework seem darker and the chewing gum stuck to the pavement seems stickier and more defiant, in someone else’s city. The dirt that collects in dried tide on walls, windows, bus stops and doors seems dingier. People seem colder, ruder, less helpful, too forward…