Never Been Abroad

Country: USA

The United States arrived as scale and noise — New York before anywhere else, and the half-drowned music of New Orleans, all of it watched from a great distance and never reached.

  • Charcoal sketch of a French Quarter street of iron-lace balconies in New Orleans - never been abroad

    New Orleans

    New Orleans is a city built below the water it lives beside, holding a party over its own graveyards, in a heat I would recognise anywhere.

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  • Charcoal sketch of the Manhattan skyline at dusk seen across the water, towers crowded against a pale sky - never been abroad

    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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