After-Orts #119
The spirit life of old urban buildings works like an inversion of the transmigration of souls. A spectral essence is not the constant, as it is with a soul that drifts out of one body to be reincarnated in another. The constant is the containing vessel, the structure on the city street, and the spirit of the place is what changes over time.
— David Hajdu, The Parsonage
https://placesjournal.org/article/the-many-historical-lives-of-an-east-village-townhouse/
Cheerfulness is a choice. Every morning you’re offered Anxiety, Bitterness, Cheerfulness, Dread, Ennui, and Forgetfulness. It’s a new day, there is work to be done, you are loved, the coffee is on, so choose C. C is always the correct choice.
— Garrison Keillor
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