Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.
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.
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
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