“We get to know our cities on hoot, and when we leave, the topography shifts. We’re no longer as surefooted. But maybe that’s a good thing. It’s just a question of looking, and of not hoping to see something else when we do. Maybe it’s good to keep some distance from the things we know well, to always be slightly out of sync with them, not to pretend mastery. Beneath the cities we don’t recognize are stacked all the cities we do.”
