The Dead Seagull (2015)
“It is whatever city we see with the visionary eye of love.
I looked upon London and saw that all the people were in a sort of conspiracy of felicity: but, hide their happiness from each other as they might and as they did, they could not conceal this happiness from me, I saw seven millions in a honeycomb building the architecture of human happiness. And, most of all, it was the apparently miserable who were the most gratified, for their misery hung about their bodies like a barbarous and ma...gnificent decoration; they could never remain unnoticed. The vanity in the rags of the beggar outside Selfridges stood up and cockcrowed as he debased his humanity; when it won him a penny his ego clapped its wings. You, prostitutor of the female country, does it really degrade you when your admirer pays for gazing at the spot of beauty? O whore of the stars, the price we have paid you for your satisfactions!
* * * * House what inhospitalities or inhumanities that it may, nevertheless, here in this immense city, the collusion between the will of man and the will of his creator is most manifest.MoreLess
I looked upon London and saw that all the people were in a sort of conspiracy of felicity: but, hide their happiness from each other as they might and as they did, they could not conceal this happiness from me, I saw seven millions in a honeycomb building the architecture of human happiness. And, most of all, it was the apparently miserable who were the most gratified, for their misery hung about their bodies like a barbarous and ma...gnificent decoration; they could never remain unnoticed. The vanity in the rags of the beggar outside Selfridges stood up and cockcrowed as he debased his humanity; when it won him a penny his ego clapped its wings. You, prostitutor of the female country, does it really degrade you when your admirer pays for gazing at the spot of beauty? O whore of the stars, the price we have paid you for your satisfactions!
* * * * House what inhospitalities or inhumanities that it may, nevertheless, here in this immense city, the collusion between the will of man and the will of his creator is most manifest.MoreLess
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