#i know it makes no sense that you can see the pyramids and memphis from alexandria but i don't give a fuck

[caernua]

ASSASSIN’S CREED: ORIGINS – scenery 7/∞

Alexandria viewed from the top of the Serapeion

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[zerogate]

His plunge into metaphysics gradually changed Elvis. He grew more circumspect, more mature. His own transformation put a damper on the activities of the Memphis Mafia, ending much of the sophomoric behavior they were known for on film sets—the horsing around, shaving-cream fights, lobbing of cherry bombs, etc.

He had always been generous, but now he strove to do so in an impersonal manner, selflessly, trying not to have ulterior motives. He gave away cars, motorcycles, jewelry, and personal possessions merely because he thought it would bring happiness to someone. Every step he took on the new path of spiritual discovery further energized him. He sensed that he was entering a new phase of life, and that some secret was about to be revealed to him. Feeling a need to overcome worldly temptations and cleanse himself physically and spiritually, he began to meditate daily and ordered a meditation garden built on the grounds at Graceland...

Over the next few years he would read a thousand or more books about metaphysical subjects. Simply by scanning some of the titles we can gain some idea of what interested Elvis and of the depth of his spiritual quest. He read Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine by Helena Blavatsky, George Gurdjieff’s Meetings with Remarkable Men, and P. D. Ouspensky’s The Fourth Way. He read The Urantia Book, Manly Palmer Hall’s The Mystical Christ and The Secret Teachings of All Ages, The Chakras by C. W. Leadbeater, and Jiddu Krishnamurti’s You Are the World. He read Pyramidology: The Science of the Divine Message of the Great Pyramid by Adam Rutherford, The Holy Kabbalah by A. E. Waite, and Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha...

As time went on he kept requesting more and more books from Geller, and he loved to keep them at his disposal. Wherever he traveled, the Mafia had to transport a personal library of two hundred volumes...

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Late that day they had reached northern Arizona and were driving on Route 66 in the vicinity of Flagstaff. A lull had settled over the vehicle, the result of many hours on the road. Suddenly Geller heard Elvis punctuate the stillness with a “Whoa!” His eyes were focused on the sky ahead. Geller looked there too and saw a strange cloud. “Do you see what I see?” Elvis asked. Geller did.

The lone cloud had taken the form of a human face—and not just any face. Both of them instantly recognized the thick moustache and heavy eyebrows of the late leader of the Soviet Union—Joseph Stalin. Though he had died twelve years earlier, Stalin still represented evil incarnate. He had ordered hundreds of thousands of executions during his decades in power, caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands more by relocating populations, incarcerated fourteen million people in the Gulag, exiled millions more to Siberia, caused famines in which millions of others died, and conducted genocide against such groups as the Ukrainians.

They watched the cloud in amazement. Elvis kept mumbling, “Why Stalin? Why Stalin?” Finally the face changed. The cloud shifted and lost the likeness. Geller glanced over at Elvis, intending to comment. For some reason, Elvis was still transfixed. He had the look of Juan Diego at Guadalupe or Bernadette at Lourdes. Geller hesitated to interrupt.

Then Elvis jammed on the brakes and pulled to the side of the road. He jumped out of the vehicle, calling to Geller to follow him, and went running into the desert. He hugged Geller when Geller caught up with him, and kept babbling about God being love. He kept telling Geller that he loved him. He kept saying that he felt filled with divine love. He kept repeating that God was love itself. As he became more coherent, he made clear what had been happening when Geller had seen him transfixed.

Elvis kept asking himself why the cloud had taken the form of Stalin. Was God trying to send him a message? Was God showing him a projection of his inner self? Elvis recoiled. In his mind he cried out to God—saying that if that face of evil was meant to represent him, then he wanted God to destroy him. He wanted only to be filled with God and love. “And then it happened!” he told Geller. “The face of Stalin turned right into the face of Jesus, and he smiled at me, and every fiber of my being felt it. For the first time in my life, God and Christ are a living reality.”

Geller had not seen the second face. Only Elvis had. They were standing there stunned when Red West came hurrying toward them. He wanted to know if Elvis was all right. Elvis assured him that he was fine. They walked back to the vehicle. Wanting only to revisit the memory again and again to savor the experience, Elvis moved to the back and let Red take over the driving. He would revel in his religious epiphany for the rest of that night. Geller accompanied him in spirit.

In the early morning hours he finally admitted to Elvis that, five years earlier, in the very same region of Arizona, he had had his own religious experience. He, a Jew, had received a message confirming that Jesus was the Christ. Once more Elvis was struck with wonder—in exactly the same location they both had had a profound mystical experience. But there was even more to it. Elvis had experienced a revelation so intensely private that he felt he could not share it with anyone, not even Geller. He would carry the burden of that revelation, hidden away in his own heart, for another nine years...

Priscilla was convinced that Elvis had a healing touch. “He was capable of spiritual healing, one touch of his hands to my temples and the most painful headaches disappeared.” So was Jerry Schilling, who had spent two weeks in a hospital after a motorcycle accident and had begun to worry that he would never be able-bodied afterward. Though he refused to think of it as anything mystical, the nagging pain did leave while Elvis was treating him. Elvis’s grandmother Minnie Mae was also convinced, and she allowed Geller and her famous grandson to treat her arthritis and other ailments over the years...

Sonny West acknowledged Elvis’s belief in his capabilities, although he was dubious about the capabilities themselves: “Elvis announced that he possessed psychic healing powers and could cure the common cold or other ailments through his simple touch. He also thought he could make leaves move and turn the sprinkler system of the Bel Air Country Club on and off through telekinesis.” However, years later, when West’s infant son had a high fever, Elvis asked if he could come and pray over him. He donned a turban and placed the child on a green scarf and began to pray while making circular motions over him. The boy’s temperature soon dropped to below 100 and did not go up again. West admitted that he and his wife were “amazed.”

-- Gary Tillery, The Seeker King: A Spiritual Biography of Elvis Presley

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Listening Post: Stax Reissues

Isaac Hayes and David Porter

During the month of June, Craft Recordings released a Stax album each day — their first digital appearances — as part of Black History Month. The albums are a mix of oddities, minor albums by soul stars, ambitious musicals and even a lost classic or two. The series focuses on post-1969 material, meaning the second wave of prime Stax material and a business now separated from Atlantic Records. Roughly considered, the period came with a change in sound and prolific stretch of artistry. Rather than sort through 30 albums, we'll take a look at just a few that seem particularly interesting.

Justin Cober-Lake: There are two albums I want to pull out that I think are particularly fertile for discussion, not only in themselves but in looking at Stax in transition. The first is David Porter's Victim of the Joke? An Opera. Porter's best work came as a songwriter, especially with Isaac Hayes, during the first era of Stax. Here he goes from short pop songs to full concept album, though the best track on here is a cover a pop song, the Beatles' “Help.” Carla Thomas got an early start in music (aided by dad Rufus Thomas), but by the release of 1969's Memphis Queen, she'd earned that moniker. She didn't especially love this album and it seems to be forgotten, but it sounds incredible to me. “I Like What You're Doing (To Me)” was a minor hit worth more attention. I'm not entirely sure why this one hasn't stuck around, but I suspect that it has something to do with the fact that it has the pop sense of earlier Stax (Motown really, with its lack of swamp) and the more “sophisticated” sound that gets associated with the label in the 1970s (as with Isaac Hayes).  

Jennifer Kelly: Hey Justin, thanks for starting this.

I am really liking the Carla Thomas and will have more to say about that later.  

However, I'm having a terrible time with the David Porter album. Over a quarter of it, by time, is made up of pointless, tedious skits, which don't tell much of a story and are really horrendously acted. I've started stripping these out so that I don't get bored and vindictive, but even so, the music feels incredibly bloated and musak-y — all those Mancini string swells. I'm not hearing much that's distinctive about Porter as a writer or a performer either, and if the best song on your record is a Beatles cover, you can count me out.  

Is anyone else hating this as much as I am or is it just me?

Jonathan Shaw: Yep, afraid so.  

I do see a through-line from the skits on Porter's record to the willfully moronic stuff on The Chronic and some other 1990s LA rap. The stuff on the Death Row records was a little more self aware. A little — "The $20 Sack Pyramid" is pretty funny. Lots of misogyny there, though...  

Justin Cober-Lake: I can't deal with the interludes at all (I also don't like rap skits). Giving it a test-run with all of those pulled out, Porter's album works far, far better. Before I looked at it, I actually thought there were more interludes than songs, and that they took up more time. Neither idea is true, but it shows how much they affect the record. I'm guessing this approach was pretty novel for its time. We're into concept-album territory by 1971, but it's not yet old hat. Porter breaks some ground on this release, even if it doesn't work.

Musically it doesn't feel bloated to me, and I'd have never made the Mancini connection. I think those strings are a big part of what makes the second era of Stax (I know I'm making that distinction pretty loosely) so distinctive. This fits in with what Isaac Hayes was doing so well. It's a difficult comparison, though. Hayes is two years past Hot Buttered Soul and he's on to Shaft and Black Moses. Porter's ambitions go a different direction. I love that he's pushing himself, but it makes me feel like he's getting outside his strengths and it shows just a little. 

Let's drill it down even more. What do people think of the last cut, "Airplane Ticket, Bus Ride, Can I Borrow Your Car?" I suspect comments on that track will be telling.

Nate Knaebel: I think it's important to consider the historical context for the Porter and Hayes solo records, too. That pair had a tremendous amount of pull around the Stax offices and were second only to Steve Cropper in the in-house artist hierarchy. As much as it may have been welcome, there was no real pressure for them to be successful solo artists (or solo artists at all) as long as their contributions as writers, producers and A&R men continued to make money. They had a freedom to stretch out creatively in way that, say, Ollie Nightingale might not. That second half of the Stax story is also plagued with financial mishap in part because Stax lost its entire back catalog to Atlantic. So, as I understand it, Al Bell was demanding something (anything) from his entire roster in order to refill the vaults. Combine the freedom that Porter earned for co-writing so many Stax standards with the demand for product and the general headiness of the times and you end up with strange results. Though it works better than some of Porter's stuff, Hayes's 19-minute version of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"(featuring an extended monologue no less) is ultimately just as strange, experimental and antithetical to a traditional industry MO as Victim of the Joke . . . 

Nate Knaebel: While I can't say this a classic, I certainly don't mind it either. The strings feel very appropriate for the times, and there's enough Stax grit to keep me invested. I agree that skits may not work, but again, I hear them in a historical context and as a product of the occasionally ill-conceived experiments of the times from an artist with the wherewithal to try them. 

Jonathan Shaw: So, in historical context: What's the "joke"? The fact that Porter's conceptual protagonist was "made human"? "Human" seems to me the best track on the record. Its agonizing resonates with 1971, a shitty year all around in the U.S., but as ever, probably especially shitty if you were black. I still don't know what to make of the record's stylistic excesses, the sweeping strings and goofy sentimentality, the Beatles cover. It would be stupid to insist that all records had to take radical black politics seriously, or had to respond to politicized artistic agenda. But I just can't get a read on the record and the stakes of its experiment, or concept. Black creativity at sea in the whiteness of institutional culture? Is that why the closing interludes spend so much time on the beach? The cartoonish masculinity (the "buxom, fine chicks" in the water, the shouts of "faggot") gets pretty unpleasant.

Justin Cober-Lake: Nate's historical context is right on point, and I think it's part of what makes this era so interesting. That demand for products is largely what produced the "Soul Explosion" that these records are part of. It's fun to get lost in it, especially with so much weirdness.

Justin Cober-Lake: Nate's historical context is right on point, and I think it's part of what makes this era so interesting. That demand for products is largely what produced the "Soul Explosion" that these records are part of. It's fun to get lost in it, especially with so much weirdness. 

As for what the joke is — I have no idea. I thought he's the victim of a bad relationship, one he should have entered into. The songs do help tell the story; it's not just that the interludes connect loose thematic concerns. Porter's character gets together with a woman who belongs to someone else, and "belong" is the appropriate word here —  she's spoken of as another man's possession. The first song is about his unwillingness to enter a relationship where his love can't be reciprocated, then he sings of sneaking around. After he's found out, he's beaten and things unravel. It's ambitious, but Porter doesn't seem to know what to do with it. I'm not sure what to take away from it other than a warning about dating other guys' girls.

 Nate Knaebel: Jonathan's questions intrigue, but, to Justin's point, do they require an answer? Perhaps the record should just be taken on its own terms, for better or worse. Even given the broader politics of the day. There was plenty of music being made in 1971 that wasn't expressly political but was artistically progressive. Soul acts were constantly shifting back and forth between the political and the personal to see what worked sales-wise, sometimes even embracing one at the wholesale rejection of the other. Remember that by 1973, Marvin Gaye didn't really care much about what was going on anymore and just wanted to do blow and fuck. I'm also interested in some of the reactions I've seen here to the music itself. What, for example, is excessive about a Beatles cover? It was fairly common for soul and R&B artists to do them, and Stax did a bunch. And you’re not the first person to mention the strings, Jonathan, but the presence of such instrumentation just doesn't strike me as an unusual or even an aesthetically questionable choice. The whole genre was headed in a more ornate direction by the 1970s, with Gamble and Huff revolutionizing the form using similar arrangements that far exceed those here in the sentimentality department. All that said, I'm personally not crazy about this album (there are a few decent jams), but I see it more as an experiment that fell flat for a variety of reasons, the muddled narrative certainly being one. But there's no single artistic decision here, in and of itself, that I find terribly perplexing. It just doesn't really grip me as a whole. Whether there is really anything to crack or not.

Justin Cober-Lake: As a bit of an aside, anyone who's interested should check out McLemore Avenue, Booker T. and the MGs' album of Abbey Road covers. About a decade ago, the Stax Does the Beatles compilation came out. I think Porter's cover here is pretty fun — I just find it strange that someone so praised for his songwriter would make an album where a cover stood out.

I don't know if we have much more to say (though feel free to talk on), but I think what I find intriguing about it is the way that it epitomizes so much of 1971 Stax — it has a bunch of strings to play with, it has a central figure to the studio going weird (with comparisons to his companion also going weird), it has a Beatles cover, it buys into the concept album era, it has dated gender politics, it's part of a burst of creativity/product releasing that maybe could have used a little work. Somehow it's both indicative of an entire scene and utterly idiosyncratic.  

So, if we do want to move on, how do we respond to the much more sensible Memphis Queen album from 1969, which is still part of that moment but feels like much more of a transitional album?

Jonathan Shaw: Yeah, I meant "stylistic excesses, sweeping strings and goofy sentimentality, the Beatles cover" as sequence, not as specific examples of "excess." None of that stuff works for me, aesthetically, so to make sense of a record that seems to have a concept, I take it conceptually seriously. Maybe that's the joke — on the listener. And maybe that's the reason for the Beatles cover, to gesture to a band that took itself very, very seriously. 

 Justin Cober-Lake: Bumping this conversation. Anyone have thoughts on Memphis Queen?

Ian Mathers: I finally got around to listening to some of these (I also had the Knowbody Else, not sure if we're discussing that one?), and agree with the general consensus about the David Porter. Heck, if you measure by track time, that interminable intro track is longer than all but one of the songs on the Carla Thomas album. About the most I liked any of the songs was when I misheard and thought "When You Have to Sneak" was "When You Have to Speak" instead (although I also found myself wondering how such a relatively positive song snuck into the middle of this pretty sordid and depressing narrative). I didn't have a problem with the sound of the songs —  I liked the strings! — or Porter's vocal performance, but conceptually and lyrically the whole thing was a mess back in 1971 and seems like an even bigger mess now.  

I'm glad though that I listened to Memphis Queen first, just to confirm for sure that I loved it on its own merits and not just by comparison. I've heard Carla Thomas here and there, but this was definitely my biggest exposure to her, and if I don't have enough knowledge of the genre as a whole to contrast it to much, the songs held up well here to other singers I've liked such as, say, Ann Sexton. Particularly on the slightly more driving "Unyielding" or "More Man Than I've Ever Had", it totally feels like it lives up to the title.

Justin Cober-Lake: "More Man Than I've Ever Had" is the track that jumps out to me. It's the clearest forerunner to Sharon Jones I've heard in Carla Thomas, and it keeps that deeper Memphis funk sound. The knock on the album -- as much as it gets -- seems to be that it's over-orchestrated and therefore a little too soft. Part of what drew me to the record is its liminal position. It doesn't scream early Booker T or 1970s Isaac Hayes. She's a long way from "Gee Whiz," and if she doesn't sound like she did on the Otis Redding duets, that's not a knock (so to speak). Vocally, she's assured and she's skilled. There's a decade of recording experience behind her at this point, with some top artists (including Dad) and she delivers.

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[the-firebird69]

They seek the Pyramids that kill so many. Seek out now and bg after Italy they saw stuff. They suspect both they use each other by fighting, of firing dead kids of thiers atb them. Clancy Brown is bja no makes more sense to fire them at them yes. They try to talk to them can't speak they no other blather and say can't stop. He says you need a break. He won't hits him.leaves. then Mac daddy says this is the fishiest thing I've ever seen. They walk about insolent as he'll have us do stupid shit lose it get rd up regain...so he sees this them all around him saying it. And says ok after who. You and yours who won't let us live regardless it's idiocy for sure. And yes it's due to minorities drinking more from the cup of life still are s but sound much better. He says ohh it hit me the treatment is horrible. Then I noticed something they are mad and scared. We won't move off this dumb house won't stop harassing. He says I know what it is it's the idiots. He moves idiots all over him. He says demons use you poor demons they say we know it's a living. And die then. He takes off says ok. Then the end scene as he finally got it. Again.

He dies freezes Harrison gets her outvyhey leave the back way hrs a nut. He is sliced. Lost why no. Don't need the refuse part and sliced right on the splice. Cork took the Pyramid over encourages Jack aka cruise to hit the big giant face. Lost. Froze. All went up well shortly. And revived several walked them in the Pyramid in situ. Let him think he wins. Won. Us the winner. Drop clues then as needed then stick it to him. Hard. Over and over. Then applaud him when he gets it. Then signal in front if him when it's time to others a team. Until he gets it. Then goodbye cork. Evil twit then to titan. Yes. And in Memphis as he ordained gives them a chance. Then up for mortal engines and more.

Thor

First bladerunner. We wait yrs it's on. War approaches there.

And on it goes...see what it is. Then he's got the idea. Huge diamonds and more to there. Huge lots. And Bladerunner got a boost today by Synths. A push now from Blaa. They are huge now. Then this they sit on it...almost I hear but yes can and do scan. Are at it now. And there is reason to be there as we are to jamb.

Thor

[tamboradventure]

The Best Tour Companies in Egypt

Posted: 10/5/2019 | October 5th, 2019

Egypt is a country that tops the bucket-list country for many travelers. It’s a country filled with incredible relics of ancient history, from the Pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza, and offers tons of incredible activities for travelers of all walks of life. Floating down the Nile River on a traditional felucca, exploring the tombs of Tutankhamen and other pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, snorkeling and diving in the coral fantasyland of the Red Sea — there’s just so many amazing parts of Egypt to amaze and enthrall you.

These days, Egypt is a destination many travelers shy away from. Given that there have been some terrorist attacks targeting tourists over the last couple of decades and that people are still wary of the changes in government since the Arab Spring, those concerns are understandable.

However, since 2017, tourism numbers have begun to increase again. In fact, they are growing so fast they might hit an all-time record in 2019 or 2020.

Things have been changing for the better in Egypt and it’s now a safe country to visit for the intrepid traveler. That means it’s time to start planning your dream trip to this diverse and historic country.

While I am a huge fan of solo travel, distances between the most popular sights in Egypt are pretty far. You can expect to spend a full day or night traveling by road or rail between Cairo and Luxor, for example, so joining an organized tour can help you make the most of your time.

And it can also save you some money, too!

Tours in Egypt often work out to be cheaper than trying to put together your own trip as some will include domestic airfare for prices cheaper than you’ll be able to get on your own.

Taking a tour with a reputable company also ensures that you’ll have safe detours with someone who really knows the lay of the land and will keep you informed of any risks. Knowledgeable tour guides also make for a more interesting trip — which is why tours in Egypt are so popular.

Here is a list of the best tour companies in Egypt, offering everything from day trips around Cairo to multiday tours around the country:

1. Intrepid

Intrepid is one of my favorite tour companies in the world.

I’ve been on a handful of their tours over the years to destinations all around the world and have yet to be disappointed. Their local guides provide invaluable insight and they are dedicated to making environmentally friendly choices too.

And the company just hires really awesome people too.

In Egypt, Intrepid has tours that range between eight and fifteen days. To be able to see enough in just eight days, they fly you between Cairo and the south, so the cheaper trip is actually the 15-day one, which uses a mix of bus, boat, and train travel, starting around $1,200 USD. Intrepid also has some specialized offerings, with a nine-day trip for travelers aged 18–29, trips especially for families, and also one just for solo travelers.

If you’re keen to explore beyond Egypt, Intrepid also offers a range of longer tours that take in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine as well.

As a reader of this site, you also get access to exclusive deals and sales so click on over to their site and see what tours are on sale now!

2. Memphis Tours

One of the first tour companies in Egypt, Memphis Tours has been around since 1955. It offers a huge variety of tours – from half- or full-day tours in Cairo or Alexandria to snorkeling or camel-riding trips out of resort destinations like Sharm el-Sheikh, ranging between $35 and $90 USD per person.

They also offer a selection of cruises both on the Nile and on Lake Nasser. The popular Luxor-to-Aswan trip along the Nile can be made in a variety of pretty luxurious ships; prices are around $500 USD per person for a four-day trip.

Memphis Tours also offer fully organized multi-day trips that last between 3–15 days. Many of these take in the key sights, like the Pyramids, a Nile cruise, and the Luxor and Karnak Temples, and typically fly you back to Cairo. The costs vary depending on the extra activities involved but are pretty reasonable: small group tours covering the main sights from Cairo to Luxor start at $1,100 USD. They also offer some specialized tours, such as one specifically designed to accommodate wheelchair users.

3. Look at Egypt Tours

Look at Egypt Tours is another local company that offers both day and multiday tours. It specializes in having knowledgeable guides that make the history of Egypt really come alive, giving incredible insight into modern-day Egyptian life as well.

The company also has a sense of social responsibility too, using locally owned restaurants and hotels on all trips and hiring guides from communities throughout the country.

Look at Egypt Tours runs a variety of day trips out of the main centers, including Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, and Sharm el-Sheikh, ranging in cost between $50 and $150 USD per person, depending on the destination and the group size.

Multi-day tours include lots of options too; these last around 8–10 days and cost between $1,500 and $2,000 USD. There are also some specialized trips, like a two-week archaeological tour, the perfect choice for any history buffs (or Indiana Jones fans!).

4. On the Go Tours

On the Go Tours has been running tours to a variety of countries for a couple of decades now, but it all started in Egypt, where the two founders met. The company focuses on sustainable travel and supports local communities, and it hires local guides who have studied Egyptology at a college level as well.

In Egypt, they run several great-value group tours, like an eight-day trip from Cairo to Luxor for $400 USD, which includes the Pyramids of Giza, the incredible Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the temples at Luxor, a two-night felucca cruise on the Nile, a visit to the Valley of the Kings, and more. Accommodations are more budget-oriented than many other tour companies, making this a great option for backpackers.

If your timing and budget are more flexible, you might also take a look at some of On the Go’s festival tours, timed to celebrations like the Abu Simbel Sun Festival or the King Ramses Sun Festival. These tours are typically around ten days long and range between $1,600 and $2,800 USD per person, depending on whether they include internal flights.

5. Jakada Tours Egypt

Jakada Tours is a smaller company that offers private tours as well as group trips with a focus on budget mid-range travel.

Trips covering many of Egypt’s highlights and lasting between seven and ten days range from $600 to $1,000 USD. If you’re on your second trip to Egypt or have some extra time, Jakada also offers a range of more unusual tours, like spending time at the Cairo camel market!

The company also makes sure its guides are really knowledgeable, not just about ancient history but modern Egyptian culture too, as well as all the best local tips and tricks to help you make the most out of your stay.

6. Exodus Travels

Exodus offers trips worldwide and has a reputable social conscience; they aim to give back to the local communities they are a part of. In Egypt, they support Animal Care in Egypt (ACE), and its tours often include an option to visit the charity’s facility.

Exodus offers a nine-day Nile cruise from Luxor, which is a good compromise between luxury and price (around $1,400 USD per person, all-inclusive), with a maximum of 20 passengers. The company also has a longer trip that takes in key sights like the Valley of the Kings as well as Alexandria; this two-week tour starts at $2,000 USD.

7. Beyond the Nile Tours

Beyond the Nile Tours is another Egypt-based tour company using local, highly educated guides with lots of historical and cultural knowledge. It offers three tours, ranging between eight days and two weeks in length; on all of them, you can be flexible with your budget, as some activities, like a balloon ride over the Pyramids ($100 USD), are optional.

All these tours kick off in Cairo with a full day exploring what we all dream of seeing — the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphnix — along with the Egyptian Museum to put the history into context. Then you’re flown down to Luxor and cruise from there to the Valley of the Kings, among other places. On the longer trips, you can choose to travel back north more slowly, or you can include several days relaxing at a Red Sea resort. Tour prices range from $1,200 to $1,400 USD per person, with some additional costs for extra activities.

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As much as I love solo travel, planning a trip to Egypt is much easier with a tour company. While you probably know that you want to see the Pyramids, the Nile, and other historical sites, getting around is not that easy to organize in advance, so it’s good to have the local knowledge of Egyptian guides to make sure you’re both safe and getting the most out of your trip.

So whether you’re after a short tour hitting the highlights of Egypt in a week or have more time to explore the country a little more slowly or even spend some time relaxing at the Red Sea, you’ll find a tour company to help you out.

Book Your Trip: Logistical Tips and Tricks

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The Americas is Ancient Egypt

1595 mercator Map of the North Pole shown as Eden and Meru

Old World 1595 Mercator map of the Arctic North Pole, and as you can see someone listed Eden and Meru right there. But why?Well, because the KJV Bible lists 4 rivers in association with the Garden of Eden and you can see 4 rivers and the Black cube (the Kaba or the tree of life) in the center of the lake where the rivers emanate from that represents the Tree of life in the Garden of Eden. Notice how the land mass looks just like the swastika (black spirit). What is the Swastika? Well, the Swastika is the clockwise rotation of the constellations around the Pole Star/North Star, which creates the electromagnetic energy that creates and sustains life.

1595 Mercator Map of the North Pole

Old world 1595 Mercator map of the Arctic North pole. Notice Mount Meru, which is the black magnetic mountain, aka, the Kaba, at the center in the lake, which is our magnetic North pole that aligns perfectly with the Pole Star or North Star.

16th Century Wall Mural from cusco, Peru

In this post is a 16th Century Wall mural, Cusco, Andes Mts (see figure 46). This wall mural vividly displays images of the Coppertone Inca civilization and the power of the supreme Inca, the ruler of the state. Cusco was the capital city of the Inca Empire, and was known to them as Tahuantinsuyo, “the place where the four corners of the world joined together.”

The Mississippi River System

This is the Mississippi River and its seven streams, as described in the book of Isaiah 11:15 KJV, “And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.” Notice the seven streams that flow into the Tongue (mouth) of the Egyptian Sea (the Gulf of Mexico). In ancient times, the Gulf of Mexico was known as the Egyptian sea.

Pyramids in America

This image is from the book, “Pyramids in America,” by R. A. Umar S. Bey. This is more pyramids in North America than all of Africa Combined and people tell me that America is not the True Old World.

Greetings friends, before reading this post, “The Americas is Ancient Egypt,” please read my previous post so that there is no doubt that the Americas is ancient Egypt, “10 Reasons why Ancient Egypt was in the Americas.” It’s a good read and the information all ties in with this post, so please do enjoy it. Thank you: https://www.americaistheoldworld.com/10-reasons-why-ancient-egypt-was-in-the-americas/. Now, that we have read that valuable information in the blog link I shared, let’s get into this post, so that we can prove beyond a show of a doubt that the Americas is ancient Egypt.

Lower Ancient Egypt was in North America:

When discussing ancient Egypt, the focus has to be on the Nile River System of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, which is allegedly the longest river in the world at 4,132 miles long. However, when you combine the Mississippi (Miss-Isis) River System of the Missouri River (2,540 miles) and the Mississippi (2,340 miles) you will have a total length in miles of 4,890, which is 758 miles longer than the Nile River system that is in Africa. Yes, the Mississippi River system is the longest, which is strong indication that it was your first Nile River system. In this post is a image of the Mississippi River and its seven streams, as described in the book of Isaiah 11:15 KJV, “And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.” Notice the seven streams that flow into the Tongue (mouth) of the Egyptian Sea (the Gulf of Mexico). In ancient times, the Gulf of Mexico was known as the Egyptian sea and the book of Isaiah 11:15 KJV bible proves that as factual.

Additional clues can be found with a quick study of the etymology of the name, “Missouri,” you will learn that it is just a corruption of Mizraim. Who was Mizraim? Well, Mizraim, according to the KJV Bible was the son of Ham, and he was the younger brother of Cush and the elder brother of Phut and Canaan (Phoenicians), whose families together made up the Hamite branch of Noah’s descendants. According to Wikipedia Mizraim means Egypt:

 “Mizraim (Hebrew: מִצְרַיִם‎ / מִצְרָיִם‎, Modern Mitzráyim [mitsˈʁajim] Tiberian Miṣrāyim / Miṣráyim [misˤˈrɔjim] \ [misˤˈrajim] ; cf. Arabic مصر, Miṣr) is the Hebrew and Aramaic name for the land of Egypt, with the dual suffix -āyim, perhaps referring to the “two Egypts”: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. Mizraim is the dual form of matzor, meaning a “MOUND” or “fortress,” the name of a people descended from Ham.[1] It was the name generally given by the Hebrews to the land of Egypt and its people.[2]. Neo-Babylonian texts use the term Mizraim for Egypt.”[3].

Notice in the quote above that I put emphasis on the word “Mound,”(pyramids?) because the Washitaw Muurs were known as the Mound Builders and the Ancient ones, and are considered to be the oldest indigenous people on the planet according to the UNITED NATIONS. You have Mounds found all over the Americas, but especially all up and down the Mississippi River. In fact, you have so many Mounds built along the Mississippi River that academics nicked the people that built them the Mississippi Mound builders. This is a very significant fact, because Mounds are associated with Mizraim, which is Egypt, according to the above quote. You have virtually no Mounds in Africa, therefore, the sheer number of Mounds in the Americas and pyramids (see image of Pyramids in North America) is a strong indication that the Americas is Mizraim (Egypt).

Pyramids are a symbol of Atlantis, according to the book, “Atlantis: The Antediluvian world, by Ignatius Donnelly, “The Pyramid. – Not only are the cross and the Garden of Eden identified with Atlantis, but in Atlantis, the habitation of the gods, we find the original model of all these pyramids which extend from India to Peru.” [end quote]. I must note that North America (Asia Major/ India Superior) by itself has more pyramids than all of Africa combined. Now, if we include all of the Americas (North, South, and Central) then it is not a contest anymore as far as who has the most pyramids. I presented this evidence already in Volume I of my book, “America is the true old World,  however, my book sample will prove my point that the Americas is Atlantis because it is way more pyramids (the symbol of Atlantis) in the Americas than in Africa: https://www.americaistheoldworld.com/america-is-the-true-old-world/.

Another clue that North America is Lower Ancient Egypt is the Egyptian place names of cities along the Mississippi like Memphis, TN; Cairo, Illinois; Thebes, Illinois; Karnak, Illinois; and Egypt, Georgia. Illinois has a huge territory of land in Southern Illinois that is known as Little Egypt, but why? Could it be because that area was once little Egypt? I believe so because the Americas is the true old world. In fact, I know this to be factual, because my mother named me Eugene; therefore, I am Eugene by birth, so the same reasoning applies to cities or place names. I was always taught that if you created or founded a person, place, thing, or an ideal, and you gave it a name, that is what it is called.

Evidence to support the said place names is already given above in this chapter, but we do have more evidence with the ancient Egyptian artifacts found in Richard County, Illinois by Russell E. Burrows in 1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows_Cave. The find is nicknamed the, “Burrows Cave,” named Burrows after its founder; however, mainstream academia dismisses the find as a hoax, because the find does not fit in with the current narrative of the Americas being a new and uncivilized world first discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492.

The interesting thing about Illinois is that it was named after the Illini Tribe, which was part of the Illinois confederation. The Illinois confederation was composed of 12-13 Tribes. Illini means, “Best People,” or “Tribe of Superior Men,” this is also where the term the Illuminati comes from. Yes, the Muurs were the first illuminated ones.

Upper Ancient Egypt was in South America:

When discussing any civilization (modern or ancient), the focus must always be on a huge source of fresh water for agricultural purposes, because without food there is no civilization or life. Ancient Egypt thrived as a civilization, because of tech and because of the Nile River, which produced fertile lands, necessary for agriculture along the Nile, due to silt deposits. The Amazon is the largest and widest body of freshwater in the world with a length of 4000 miles long, allegedly. I said allegedly, because some scientist argue that the Amazon is also the longest river in the world if you add in the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal canal.[7] (See “Definition of length” at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length). Yes, due the size of the Amazon River it fits the description of being the Upper Nile River, because the Lower Nile River was the Mississippi River System. This makes sense too if we apply the supreme Axiom of, “As above so below.”

Additional, evidence that South America is Upper Ancient Egypt is the sheer number of pyramids in South America. There is more Pyramids in Peru (Heru) than all of Africa combined. Now, if we include the pyramids in Central America it’s not even a contest anymore, because they have found thousands of pyramids in Guatemala, Mexico: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5343567/Thousands-Mayan-pyramids-palaces-Guatemala.html. Please, keep in mind that the pyramid is a symbol of Atlantis and Egypt, therefore, more pyramids on this side (the Americas) means that Egypt and Atlantis were in the Americas.

Upper Cush was in South America:

Best selling author Horace Butler, “When Rocks Cry Out,” proved that Upper Egypt extended from Mexico to Peru and he proved that Cusco, Peru was the Holy City of Jerusalem. I agree with him on these points. However, Cusco, Peru is also the Biblical land of Cush, aka, ancient Ethiopia, which is considered to be the birthplace of Ancient Egypt, because the first recorded Pharaoh was Narmer (Nimrod of the Bible), and he was a son of Cush or ancient Ethiopia. Narmer is given academic credit for founding Egypt because he was the first recorded Pharaoh. Etymologically, Cush and Cusco are the same because they have a very similar spelling. Phonetically, Cush and Cusco are the same because they have a similar sounding or pronunciation. Yes, based upon the evidence, Cush and Cusco are one and the same.

Who was Cush or Kush? “Cush or Kush (/kʊʃ, kʌʃ/ Hebrew: כּוּשׁ‎ Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈkuʃ], Kush) was, according to the Bible, the eldest son of Ham, a son of Noah. Cush or Kush means Black. He was the brother of Canaan (land of Canaan), Mizraim (Egypt) and Phut (land of Libya), and the father of the biblical Nimrod mentioned in the “Table of Nations” in Genesis 10:6 and I Chronicles 1:8. Cush is traditionally considered the eponymous ancestor of the people of the “land of Cush,” an ancient territory that is believed to have been located on either side or both sides of the Red Sea. As such, “Cush” is alternately identified in scripture with the Kingdom of Kush or ancient Ethiopia.[1] The Cushitic languages are named after Cush.” [End quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cush_(Bible)].

What does Cush mean in its Spanish equivalent of Cusco/ Cuzco? “Cuzco, whose name derives from a Quechua word meaning “NAVEL” or “CENTRE,” dates from the 11th or 12th century and was the capital of Tawantinsuyu (“Realm of the Four Parts”), an empire that by the late 15th century extended to the northwest some 1,100 miles (1,800 km), reaching approximately to the northern border of present-day Ecuador, and to the south 1,600 miles (2,600 km), reaching the centre of present-day Chile, as well as to the southeast to portions of modern Bolivia and Argentina. The population of the empire at the time of the Spanish conquest, in the 1530s, may have numbered more than 12 million. The city itself had tens of thousands of inhabitants, perhaps as many as 200,000. Cuzco and the surrounding area contain extensive Inca ruins that reflect great skill in engineering, stonework, and architecture. Still extant are numerous walls built without mortar; their stones were cut in irregular shapes and fitted with such precision that a matchbox cover cannot be inserted into most seams. The famous Stone of Twelve Angles is a fine example of this construction. The original streets of Cuzco are narrow and frequently stepped.” [End Quote from https://www.britannica.com/place/Cuzco].

In this post is a 16th Century Wall mural, Cusco, Andes Mts (see figure 46). This wall mural vividly displays images of the Coppertone Inca civilization and the power of the supreme Inca, the ruler of the state. Cusco was the capital city of the Inca Empire, and was known to them as Tahuantinsuyo, “the place where the four corners of the world joined together.” Interesting thing is that the underlined description sounds like the Lower Garden of Eden in Lower Ethiopia (see images of the 1595 Mercator maps of the Arctic North pole), because you can see where the 4 corners of the world or the 4 land masses join together around the Tree of life or the Kaba (Mecca), or the Virgin Mother Mu/ MR/ Mauri/Mary.

The above description of Cush (Cusco) is significant because according to the Bible the Garden of Eden is in the land of Cush (Ethiopia). What is even more interesting is that the Upper Garden of Eden in South America, “Mount Roraima,” aka, the Tree of Life, which is the highest point in Guyana (Ghana) is within close proximity of Cusco, Peru (Heru). Mount Roraima is nicknamed the Tree of Life because it was once a mighty tree that reached up into the heavens and it produced every fruit and vegetable in the world. This mighty tree was cut down according to indigenous legend. Mount Roraima is also the source of freshwater for 3 mighty Rivers, one of which is the Amazon River (the upper Nile River). Scholar Kurimeo Ahau came to the same conclusion that Mount Roraima sits in the myhical Garden of Eden in his video, “Pt. 2 Untold Ancient American Truth/ Garden of Eden/ First Civilized/ Atlantis,” which is embedded in this blog post for your convenience.

Peru is Heru since it was the Holy City of Heru-Salem. This is true because in Greek and in Latin Jerusalem translates to Hierousalem (Greek: Ἱεροσόλυμα; in Greek hieròs, ἱερός, means holy). Please keep in mind that there is no Greek language because Greek is just the Egyptian Coptic language (Gnostic texts), according to Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan. Also, there is no J in Hebrew, which means that the J, which is only about 500 years old, can be replaced with a [I]Y, H, or a P, because in Hebrew they have the same numerical value. Let us see what happens when you do so: PERU-salem, Yeru-salem, and HERU-salem.

Hero or Heru (Horus), Peru, and Hiero/ Helio/ Holy all lead back to Ancient Egypt. Heru and Hiero is a given because we all know that has ancient Egypt written all over it, but Peru is not Egypt, or is it the Egypt of the West? This YouTube video shows you so many similarities between Egypt and Peru that it is too many to be just coincidental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CKH-QO0kCI&feature=share. To support this video, because videos can be deleted, I give you the book, “When Rocks Cry Out,” by Horace Butler that demonstrates that Upper Egypt extended from Mexico to Peru. Yes, Peru, was indeed Heru, which is more evidence that Upper Egypt was in South America.

Hero or Heru (Horus) was the Egyptian Jesus while his father Asur (Osiris) was the Holy Father or Christ. Mry-Aset (Mary-Isis) was the Holy Ghost or the Virgin Mother Mary that gave birth to Heru without the aid of his Father Osiris, therefore, Heru was conceived through immaculate conception. The Holy Trinity of Osiris (father), Isis (Mother), and Horus (Son) is one of the world’s first recorded trinities. In fact, the Christian trinity is based off the Egyptian Trinity according to the History Textbook, “The Outline of History,” by H. G. Wells. Yes, Peru was indeed the Holy City, because it is the Holy City of Heru (Jesus), who is the Egyptian son of God.

Lower Cush was in North America:

Now that we know for sure that Cusco, Peru (Heru) was the land of Cush in the Upper Garden of Eden. There must be a Lower Cush since there is an Upper Cush in South America. This has to be true since the supreme axiom is ‘the law of correspondence’: “As above so below.” Based upon this law of correspondence, Lower Cush must be somewhere in North America, but where? Well, we have a clue because the land of Cush is associated with the (lower) Garden of Eden, which was the Arctic North Pole or Mount Meru (see images of the 1595 Mercator maps of the Arctic North pole). This means that the land of Cush must be somewhere in the uppermost region of North America.

Place names like Cuzco (Cush), Indiana is a strong indication that lower Cush was Cuzco, Indiana (India); because ancient people gave people and places names after certain qualities or traits. Also, Cuzco or Cusco as we already known is the Spanish or Latinized way of saying Cush. Additionally, they admit that this Cuzco, Indiana was named or patterned after Cusco, Peru in South America, in 1905: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuzco,_Indiana. Please avoid the hijack when reading the link, because Cuzco, Indiana is ancient, since America is the True Old World. A previous civilization of Atlanteans/ Egyptians gave that area that name long before Europeans came to the Americas and Master Teacher Bobby Hemmitt seems to thick the same thing: https://www.facebook.com/delvinjihad.lawson/videos/614843569175431/.

Bobby Hemmitt quotes from the book, “Ice: The Ultimate Disaster,” by Richard Noone. According to this book you had ancient Egyptians in Maine that were writing hieroglyphics in the 1700’s; Memphis, Tennessee was named from Egyptians that traveled to that land; and in Oklahoma in the 1800’s, a stele of Pharaoh Akhenaten (Amunhotep IV, aka, Moses of the Bible) was found before they knew who Akhenaton was. Additionally, in the book, “America BC,” by Barry Fell, there is an alabaster egg of a cartouche of King Tut found in Idaho.

Also, Cuzco, Indiana has to be the Lower land of Cush since we have the lower Garden of Eden as the Arctic North Pole, aka, Mount Meru (see figures 14 and 16), lower Egypt, and lower Ghana all in North America. The Garden of Eden was in the land of Cush according to the Bible, so yes Cuzco, Indiana is the lower land of Cush, which covered. Upper and Lower Cush were like main centers or capitals because the Land of Cush in ancient times was the entire Civilized world, which was the Americas, Euro-Asia, and Africa. Before it was called the land of Cush it was called the Land of Ham. Ham is the father of Cush according to the Bible.

Names like Cush (land of the Blacks), Ethiopia (burnt face), and Egypt (burnt faces) are all referring to the dark of Black lands and its burnt (dark) or Black skinned inhabitants. “The Egyptians and the Ethiopians are too BLACK” …Aristotle, 350 B.C.E (Physiognomies).

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If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it’s found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don’t care, but they’re massively outnumbered by the people who do. – Andy Weir • If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. – Charles Caleb Colton • I’m not defending what Cory Booker said. I’m saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there’s no other way to keep his city afloat. – Bill Maher • In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy. – Mason Cooley • In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. – O. Henry • In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. – Erica Jong • It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world – Oscar Wilde • It’s one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. – Will Rogers • I’ve lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness. – Lapo Elkann • I’ve never seen a tornado and I’ve lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It’s not like we’re infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can. – Mick Cornett • I’ve reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I’ve been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I’ve come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders. – Irv Kupcinet • I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That’s how I saw it, and see it still. – Ronald Reagan • Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. – Rainer Maria Rilke • Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down. – Henry Louis Gates • Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country. – Mason Cooley • Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end – to the rest that remaineth for the people of God. – Horatius Bonar • Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Man’s course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city. – Alexander MacLaren • Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia … Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio • Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. – Nicolas Chamfort • Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it’s wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don’t avoid. – Ray Comfort • Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities – especially visually – with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it. – Barry McGee • Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion. – Jan Morris • My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. – Oprah Winfrey • New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. – Harry Connick, Jr. • New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject–art, money, sex, food, health. – Mason Cooley • New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move. – David Letterman • New York… is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation. – Roland Barthes • No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. – Cyril Connolly • No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school – John Amos Comenius • Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance – nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city – as one loses oneself in a forest – that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest. – Walter Benjamin • One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the ’70s. – Martin Scorsese • One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge. – Friedrich Nietzsche • Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities. – Jack Dangermond • Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend. – William Butler Yeats • Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. – Mason Cooley • Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans. – John Steinbeck • Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. – Giotto di Bondone • Society’ in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, ‘good for this generation only,’ and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy. – Henry Adams • Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale. – Richard Bayan • That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin. – William Shakespeare • That’s great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you’d want to spend more than three hours in. – Jerry Della Femina • The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment. – Mick Cornett • The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino • The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford • The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,–travel a whole day together,–looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. – Oscar Wilde • The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It’s the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard • The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin • The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. – Margaret Mead • The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. – Lewis Mumford • The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. – Desmond Morris • The City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night. – Toni Morrison • The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city. – Henry Ward Beecher • The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country. – Theodore Roosevelt • The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. – Euripides • The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps. – Mao Zedong • The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. – Walt Whitman • The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers. – Plato • The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. – John Gunther • The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire • The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,–the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky. – Henry Adams • The people are the city. – William Shakespeare • The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. – Frank Lloyd Wright • The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they’d practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they’d never let you forget it. – Smoky Joe Wood • The spoiled superstar brat wouldn’t get far in Oklahoma City. We’re very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life. – Mick Cornett • The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. – Federico Garcia Lorca • The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils. – Henry David Thoreau • There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times. – Noel Perrin • There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer. – Edward Hoagland There’s nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing hole Where a fellow can dream. There’s nothing so good for a man as to flee From the city and lie Full length in the shade of a whispering tree And gaze at the sky. . . . . It is good for the world that men hunger to go To the banks of a stream, And weary of sham and of pomp and of show They have somewhere to dream. For this life would be dreary and sordid and base Did they not now and then Seek refreshment and calm in God’s wide, open space And come back to be men. – Edgar Guest • This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. – Plato • This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. – William Wordsworth • To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. – Frank Lloyd Wright • To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. – John Keats • Tower’d cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. – John Milton • Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino • Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. – John F. Kennedy • We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land. – Sebastiao Salgado • We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. – Hubert H. Humphrey • We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time. – Bryant H. McGill • We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don’t have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That’s how great our traffic flows. – Mick Cornett • We do not look in great cities for our best morality. – Jane Austen • We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from – from a physicist’s viewpoint, entropy, meaning all of those bad things that we feel are engulfing us. – Geoffrey West • We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said ‘Oklahoma City,’ chances are the next word out of your mouth was ‘bombing.’ – Mick Cornett • We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear. – George Lincoln Rockwell • We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university. – Roger Revelle • We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. – John F. Kennedy • We’re crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That’s just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. – John Lennon • We’re here because we want to go to the Orient House. We’re here because this is our city. It’s an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation. – Hanan Ashrawi • What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky • What is the city but the people? – William Shakespeare • Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • When the Spirit came to Moses, the plagues came upon Egypt, and he had power to destroy men’s lives; when the Spirit came upon Elijah, fire came down from heaven; when the Spirit came upon Gideon, no man could stand before him; and when it came upon Joshua, he moved around the city of Jericho and the whole city fell into his hands; but when the Spirit came upon the Son of Man, He gave His life; He healed the broken-hearted. – Dwight L. Moody • When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. – Thomas Jefferson • When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. – Hugh Newell Jacobsen • When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. – Georgia O’Keeffe • White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. – Gerald Chertavian • You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism – with an enormous number of components – without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. – Geoffrey West • You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go. – John Frusciante • Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream. – Georges Pompidou • Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary. – Oscar Wilde

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• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. – Margaret Mead • A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. – Margaret Mead • A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. – Aristotle • A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. – Walt Whitman • A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. – Benjamin Disraeli • A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. – Aldous Huxley • A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book. – Tom Piazza • A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. – Mason Cooley • A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls – whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise. – Mark Helprin • A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! – Charles Dickens • All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. – Christopher Morley • All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,–is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. – Tacitus • America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. – C. Wright Mills • And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. – Pablo Neruda • Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another. – Plato • As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus • As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement. – Mason Cooley • As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people. – Jane Swisshelm

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This is the sacking of cities. – Jane Jacobs • But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. – Jane Jacobs • Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. – Nelson Algren • Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It’s the most theatrically corrupt. – Studs Terkel • Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady – Norman Mailer • Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. – Charles Edward Merriam • Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. – A. J. Liebling • Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population. – Carlo Ratti • Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. – Jean Baudrillard • Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth. – Geoffrey West • Cities are the abyss of the human species. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, its not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take control of their own quality of life initiatives are going to be the cities that ultimately attract the highly talented young people and create the jobs. – Mick Cornett • Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don’t. – Geoffrey West • Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. – Rupert Brooke • City and country — each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns — cattiness, everybody knowing everybody’s business — that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically. – William P. Young • City life is millions of people being lonesome together. – Henry David Thoreau • City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age. – Leon Trotsky • City of rest! – as it seems to our modern senses, – how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice! – Mary Augusta Ward • City wits, country humorists. – Mason Cooley • Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio • During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. – Sal Albanese • Even cities have their graves! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. – Frank Lloyd Wright • Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger • Every city is a living body. – Saint Augustine • Everything is real, except Beika City – Gosho Aoyama • Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. – Plato • First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a – village, the “tough” among cities, a spectacle for the nation. – Lincoln Steffens • Great Homer’s birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. – Thomas Seward • He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] – Suetonius • Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. – Carl Sandburg • How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city? – Willi Unsoeld • I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I’m sick of the job-it’s a thankless one and full of grief. I’ve been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. – Al Capone • I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words. – Walt Whitman • I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. – Milos Forman • I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working. – J. C. Chandor • I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking. – Oliver Goldsmith • I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. – Michelangelo • I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. – Rudyard Kipling • I know this year hasn’t gone as we’d all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season – the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I’m proud to be a Red Sox for those times. – Jonny Gomes • I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture. – Lord Byron • I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are. – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi • I really like Kansas City Royals stadium – Kauffman Stadium. – Bert Blyleven • I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out. – Charles Dickens • I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly. – Henry David Thoreau • If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. – Martin Luther King, Jr. • If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it’s found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don’t care, but they’re massively outnumbered by the people who do. – Andy Weir • If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. – Charles Caleb Colton • I’m not defending what Cory Booker said. I’m saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there’s no other way to keep his city afloat. – Bill Maher • In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy. – Mason Cooley • In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. – O. Henry • In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. – Erica Jong • It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world – Oscar Wilde • It’s one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. – Will Rogers • I’ve lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness. – Lapo Elkann • I’ve never seen a tornado and I’ve lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It’s not like we’re infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can. – Mick Cornett • I’ve reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I’ve been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I’ve come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders. – Irv Kupcinet • I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That’s how I saw it, and see it still. – Ronald Reagan • Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. – Rainer Maria Rilke • Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down. – Henry Louis Gates • Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country. – Mason Cooley • Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end – to the rest that remaineth for the people of God. – Horatius Bonar • Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Man’s course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city. – Alexander MacLaren • Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia … Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio • Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. – Nicolas Chamfort • Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it’s wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don’t avoid. – Ray Comfort • Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities – especially visually – with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it. – Barry McGee • Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion. – Jan Morris • My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. – Oprah Winfrey • New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. – Harry Connick, Jr. • New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject–art, money, sex, food, health. – Mason Cooley • New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move. – David Letterman • New York… is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation. – Roland Barthes • No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. – Cyril Connolly • No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school – John Amos Comenius • Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance – nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city – as one loses oneself in a forest – that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest. – Walter Benjamin • One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the ’70s. – Martin Scorsese • One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge. – Friedrich Nietzsche • Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities. – Jack Dangermond • Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend. – William Butler Yeats • Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. – Mason Cooley • Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans. – John Steinbeck • Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. – Giotto di Bondone • Society’ in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, ‘good for this generation only,’ and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy. – Henry Adams • Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale. – Richard Bayan • That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin. – William Shakespeare • That’s great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you’d want to spend more than three hours in. – Jerry Della Femina • The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment. – Mick Cornett • The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino • The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford • The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,–travel a whole day together,–looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. – Oscar Wilde • The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It’s the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard • The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin • The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. – Margaret Mead • The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. – Lewis Mumford • The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. – Desmond Morris • The City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night. – Toni Morrison • The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city. – Henry Ward Beecher • The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country. – Theodore Roosevelt • The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. – Euripides • The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps. – Mao Zedong • The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. – Walt Whitman • The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers. – Plato • The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. – John Gunther • The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire • The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,–the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky. – Henry Adams • The people are the city. – William Shakespeare • The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. – Frank Lloyd Wright • The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they’d practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they’d never let you forget it. – Smoky Joe Wood • The spoiled superstar brat wouldn’t get far in Oklahoma City. We’re very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life. – Mick Cornett • The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. – Federico Garcia Lorca • The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils. – Henry David Thoreau • There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times. – Noel Perrin • There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer. – Edward Hoagland There’s nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing hole Where a fellow can dream. There’s nothing so good for a man as to flee From the city and lie Full length in the shade of a whispering tree And gaze at the sky. . . . . It is good for the world that men hunger to go To the banks of a stream, And weary of sham and of pomp and of show They have somewhere to dream. For this life would be dreary and sordid and base Did they not now and then Seek refreshment and calm in God’s wide, open space And come back to be men. – Edgar Guest • This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. – Plato • This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. – William Wordsworth • To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. – Frank Lloyd Wright • To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. – John Keats • Tower’d cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. – John Milton • Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino • Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. – John F. Kennedy • We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land. – Sebastiao Salgado • We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. – Hubert H. Humphrey • We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time. – Bryant H. McGill • We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don’t have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That’s how great our traffic flows. – Mick Cornett • We do not look in great cities for our best morality. – Jane Austen • We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from – from a physicist’s viewpoint, entropy, meaning all of those bad things that we feel are engulfing us. – Geoffrey West • We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said ‘Oklahoma City,’ chances are the next word out of your mouth was ‘bombing.’ – Mick Cornett • We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear. – George Lincoln Rockwell • We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university. – Roger Revelle • We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. – John F. Kennedy • We’re crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That’s just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. – John Lennon • We’re here because we want to go to the Orient House. We’re here because this is our city. It’s an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation. – Hanan Ashrawi • What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky • What is the city but the people? – William Shakespeare • Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • When the Spirit came to Moses, the plagues came upon Egypt, and he had power to destroy men’s lives; when the Spirit came upon Elijah, fire came down from heaven; when the Spirit came upon Gideon, no man could stand before him; and when it came upon Joshua, he moved around the city of Jericho and the whole city fell into his hands; but when the Spirit came upon the Son of Man, He gave His life; He healed the broken-hearted. – Dwight L. Moody • When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. – Thomas Jefferson • When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. – Hugh Newell Jacobsen • When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. – Georgia O’Keeffe • White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. – Gerald Chertavian • You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism – with an enormous number of components – without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. – Geoffrey West • You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go. – John Frusciante • Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream. – Georges Pompidou • Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary. – Oscar Wilde

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[confessionsofatwentysomethin]

I know I always say they’re special, but I swear this time I mean it.

Niles Andrew Kiss.

Oh shit, she’s at it again.

I’ve been here for less than one month and I’m deathly afraid that I have already found the dumb rest of my life on dumb Tinder, and I didn’t even like him at first.

Of fucking course that would happen.

I FINALLY reached that point everyone said I would. I didn’t think I would ever reach a point where I “least expected it” let alone the point where “When you stop looking, hell, when you actively avoid it, love will find you”. As a true hopeless romantic, I never thought the day would come when I was actively avoiding falling in love, until Seattle. 

I finally reached the point where I was starting over and wanted nothing to do with dating or any of it, never mind the fact that when Christian and I broke up, I was pretty sure my heart fell out of my chest and never planned on coming back.

So, naturally, when a sarcastic dude who had pictures of himself climbing mountains on his Tinder messaged me, I didn’t think anything of it.

I started going out of my mind bored, not having anybody to hang out with out here, so when he asked if I would like to go pretend to like coffee with him sometime, I didn’t think about it, I just said yes.

We talked for a few days I think. For the first time in history, I don’t remember every detail, because I wasn’t writing an origin story in my head, I was just talking to some random dude and it probably wasn’t going anywhere.

Fuck was I fuckin wrong, man.

I drove to Teriyaki Bowl (because apparently Teriyaki and Pho are huge out here?) and we ate chinese food. He was nice, paid for my food, and looked at me when I talked. He talked about mountain climbing and snowboarding and I had so many other things on my mind that I kept asking myself why I was there. But there were a couple times I remember catching my mind wandering, I would look at him and tell myself to give him a shot because he was cute. 

There were zero cliches because I thought there was something about him that interested me, but I couldn’t figure it out and didn’t have the energy for a mystery, so I probably wasn’t going to see him again because I have too much shit to do.

So I made up some bullshit about how I had to get home, and he actually still wanted to hang out with me. I told him maybe some other time, and he asked if Thursday was okay (it was Monday) I said “sure”, thinking that was plenty of time to let him down easy, but here’s where it gets real weird:

Came time to walk separate ways, and I went to hug him. He gave me a really great hug, which caught me off guard. What caught me off guard even more was that he kissed me, and it made me so nervous that I hugged him again (so awkward) and literally ran away shouting “OKAY SEE YOU THURSDAY BYE” like a total freak. I don’t think a kiss has ever made me like that, ever. 

I still didn’t like him though. No energy for dating, remember?

So... Thursday comes around, and it comes time to blow him off. He texts me, and I decide I could probably benefit from being outside the house, so I tell him we can go get drinks because eating with me is a nightmare with my low calorie diet but I can’t eat chinese food every time we go out.

Didn’t catch myself talking about “every time” like I wasn’t just now deciding not to blow him off.

We started at Claim Jumper because I wanted to pick the place and the only place I knew was the mall and I had driven by, Too stuffy, two drinks in, and I start loosening up a little. I ask the bartender which bar is the shittiest dive in the area, and he tells me. 

I tell Niles that we should go, but he has to drive because I’m a lightweight. 

I decided that if this guy likes me, I might as well experiment with what it is about me that will drive him away. I tell him I have to smoke before we go, he kisses me even though I taste like vodka and cigarettes.

We went to a shitty dive bar and talked and I looked at him long enough to tell Treasure that he doesn’t suck. She calls him Joe Mountain, and that’s one of his many nicknames. hahaha

I told him I wanted to go back to his place to go to bed... I started having fun, he’s got an identical sense of humor to mine, and we’ve been ridiculous together since i met him.

We spent the next nights together because my aunt and uncle were out of town, inseparable. His smile, guys. When he smiles, his incisors come above his teeth, and he looks like a vampire and he looks at me like he could do it forever without saying one word.

He’s the real life version of all the bad poetry I ever wrote with his dumb jokes and his dorky laugh and the way he makes me nervous but so so calm all in one instant. 

He’s hilarious and weird and adorable and sexy and I can feel the magnitude he cares about me and wants to hear every thought that pops into my head as soon as it arrives.

I can tell he is as shocked by how well we fit right up next to eachother, but not as shocked as me,

I told him not to call me his girlfriend because I was in denial, so instead he calls me his boyfriend, and tells me he’s gay for me all the time.

We joke around during sex (which doesnt stop our sex from being easily the best I’ve ever had), and we just constantly make fun of eachother.

I’ve felt a lot of these things before, but they all feel different.

I’ve said a lot of these things before, but the one thing I have never said is that he is the fastest best friend I have ever made.

We call eachother bro and babe interchangeably, we say literally everything we think of the minute we think of it and we are so similar in all the right ways and we just... get eachother, like we’ve known eachother forever.

He licks the inside of my mouth when I have food in my teeth, and he kissed me so much in those four days that I had beard burn on my chin that didn’t clear up until he had been deployed for a week.

He’s been gone for two now, and he’ll be back in three. We talk every day, and he gives me at least one random fact every time we talk. Did you know the 6th largest pyramid in the world is in Memphis, TN and it’s a bass pro shop? because now I do.

He got me sick because we had a lung capacity contest to see who could blow harder into the other persons mouth. I won every time. And I would go through this sickness a million times over again because I never want to stop making out with him.

He’ll be back for a month before he leaves for three, and then he’s out of the navy.

We worry about each other, which seems to be new for both of us.

I am so excited for what this will be, and I can’t wait to do all of the amazing things I came to Seattle to do.. and I didn;t plan it but I guess he’s coming with me.

He’s my absolute favorite weirdo in the entire world and I’m going to make sure I give this a chance to grow into everything that it wants to.

♥