¶ New York City
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New York City:
"The real long-time New Yorker knows, however, that nothing has gone from New York and that its interests have multiplied a thousandfold. The unique vortexes continually transform and interchange.
“Old-world church and cathedral spires were originally conceived and built to reach high above the surrounding houses and stores. In New York one can look down from on high into a deep valley wherein minusculc spires reach up from the bottom like fine jewelry spicules,for, unlike business enterprises, the churches have usually been unable to move and have been swallowed by the commercial avalanche, being no longer the centers of their parish dwellings. But their spires as yet inspire when, in our thoughts, our eyes wander down into those New York deeps wherein approximately all that is physically left of yesterday is wedded with the physical of today, and we remember that we are as yet ‘quick’ and not dead, and that yesterday only the dead were normal, and that New York City is now being synchronized with the dynamism of the quick whose norm is Einstein’s c², that is 186,000 times 186,000 miles per second, the normal rate at which we see.”
