Wednesday, September 16, 2009

paste up #002 - paul bowles in tangier


"If I said that Tangier struck me as a dream city, I should mean it in the strict sense. Its topography was rich in prototypal dream scenes: covered streets like corridors with doors opening into rooms on each side, hidden terraces high above the sea, streets consisting only of steps, dark impasses, small squares built on sloping terrain so that it looked like ballet sets designed in false perspective, with alleys leading off in several directions; as well as the classical dream equipment of tunnels, ramparts, ruins, dungeons and cliffs . . ." Without Stopping by Paul Bowles


(up for less than 24 hours elm/high street northcote)

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