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Quote ~ The Phantom Tunnel of Shinjuku Station
“… The story goes that some commuters never make it home. They take a wrong turn, then another, get flustered, run down the wrong stairs and end up in the wrong elevator, until they find themselves quite alone in a quiet corridor, the soft boom of a distant underground train sounding somewhere far above them. They are never seen again.”
– Beyond The Map, Alastair Bonnett
Quote ~ Ghostly Places
“How will we haunt people in tens of thousands of years’ time to warn them of danger, when our language, our culture, will be long gone?”
– Beyond The Map, Alastair Bonnett
“I am afflicted with an aching nostalgia for lost places…”
– Beyond The Map, Alastair Bonnett
The most fascinating places are often also the most disturbing, entrapping, and appalling. They are also often temporary. In ten years’ time most of the places we will be exploring will look very different; many will not be there at all. But just as biophilia doesn’t lessen because we know that nature is often horrible and that all life is transitory, genuine topophilia knows that our bond with places isn’t about finding the geographical equivalent of kittens and puppies. This is a fierce love. It is a dark enchantment. It goes deep and demands our attention.
– Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies, Alastair Bonnett
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