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Originally Posted by kool maudit
It's fun to get poetic about cities and their environments because it expresses what they represent to us and how they make us feel. That said, New York edges onto Hoboken, Secaucus, Scarsdale and Philadelphia. Whereas Quebec is a frontier city, and it looks and feels the part. Last stop before the tundra and all.
I was actually being pretty literal, if admittedly a bit fluffy!
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Cool perspective about the mixture of cities and poetry (on an aside, I think it’s a lack of feeling in the prairies that make for some utilitarian cities, towns, and villages. 120 years ago this land was in survival mode where feelings meant shit, you just needed to get the job done in isolation, small communities here and there but still in isolation - that mentality is still here but changing but nobody knows into what because hardly anybody feels).
If you ever come to Edmonton, I’d be interested to know if beyond the ugly suburbs and shopping centres and single detached houses near skyscrapers you’d feel the frontier roots stretching into the west-south-west and north especially. Theyre here obscured by everything meant to obscure them.
Edit - feelings don’t mean much out here but extreme situations and hardship can be inspiring and I’m not denying all artistic expression was or is dormant here by any means.
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