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New York. ....

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New York. . . is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

Source: Buffet Finishes off New York, in Arts (Paris, 1959; repr. in The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, tr. by Richard Howard, 1979).
-- Roland Barthes, (Nov 12 1915-1980), French critic; He was known for his contributions to structural linguistics and New Criticism intellectual movement; wrote Writing Degree Zero, 1953.


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