When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be.
William GibsonI'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
William GibsonThe future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
William GibsonWe are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
William Gibson