"
The city is its own
book, in which
words and phrases are erased continually,
pages, even whole chapters are
torn out. New editions
appear one after the
other, with new chapters, annexes, supplements. Initially, only
architecture was
writing this book: '
The City.'
Things from
nature were put up just as they were
found. First
letters of an alphabet in the
making.
Stone upon stone, wood on wood,
clay on clay. Stacked, nailed, brushed into words and sentences. Reading was walking.
Impossible to
know a city without having been there."
Jeffrey Shaw & Tjebbe van Tijen,
Literary Psychogeography, Amsterdam 1991
