Author: iSab
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New York
Of all the cities I have never seen, New York is the one I have seen most — pre-dreamed on my behalf, in advance, by everybody.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong I dream of vertically — a city of millions folded onto a few scraps of land, assembled mostly out of things that are quietly leaving.
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Leh–Ladakh · Pangong Tso
Ladakh is the place I have the fewest excuses about. It is in my own country. There is no ocean here to blame — only me, and a road I keep not taking.
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Cape Town
Cape Town is one of the few places I was offered not just to visit but to work in — and let go. I keep a receipt for this particular longing.
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Venice
No city has been handed to me more often, or visited less. I have owned Venice for thirty years without once paying the fare.
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Varanasi
Of all the places I have not been, Varanasi is the unforgivable one — a night’s train from home, and somehow never once made.
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Zürich
I know Zürich the way you know a word you have read a hundred times and never once heard said aloud.
