The City, The Country
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luka
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what about what im surrounded with and what that does to my nervous system and how what it does to my nervous system affects what happens in my mind? the rhythms that the city imposes are completely inhuman and intolerable. that's why we like living here.
luka
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i like going to the countryside. i'd go mad if i couldn't escape London from time to time. something happens to you after a few days in the fresh air walking the hills. But there's no point lying to yourself and pretending you could live there. You'd be an alcoholic misanthrope within a year.
I've lived in countryside and it is really nice having the views and outside spaces and emptiness, but you get bored pretty quick, start to take all the nice bits for granted. And all the little practical problems started to do my head in: no train station, no 24hr booze, no nearby petrol, no one could be arsed to visit. same people in same pub, in same clothes, saying same thing to different tourists (where I lived was a picturesque village that got a lot of visitors).
I prefer the city, but nice to be able to be fairly near the countryside.
I prefer the city, but nice to be able to be fairly near the countryside.
luka
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the pub with the same people in it is one of the most horrifying things of all. it's the only place you can go so you cant escape the horror of those faces and they all assume a hideous unwanted intimacy, pressing in on you claustrophobically.. you've given too much away. theyn know too much about you. they've seen you drunk too many times. theyve forgiven too many tresspasses. they've turned a blind eye to too many disgraceful scenes. you are sure you've given away secrets but you can't know for sure, becasue you were black out drunk
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
my family live in a coastal town and i love visiting them. but only when the weather is okay. in autumn and winter everybody is hoarded up and the streets are completely empty, a punishing wind blowing through them. people turn into alcoholics. all of the tourists are gone. it feels haunted.
one thing i don't like about the city is that there's too much too see sometimes. i have this habit of looking at every object and every face even if it's just for a microsecond so what happens when i'm walking a busy square or a busy road is my eyes move in all directions and i can't focus on anything and it's very exhausting. another thing that i don't like about the city that it's very hard to see the horizon.
one thing i don't like about the city is that there's too much too see sometimes. i have this habit of looking at every object and every face even if it's just for a microsecond so what happens when i'm walking a busy square or a busy road is my eyes move in all directions and i can't focus on anything and it's very exhausting. another thing that i don't like about the city that it's very hard to see the horizon.
luka
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if you stay a week there's lots of nice walks to do. maybe you spot a buzzard circling or startle a deer nibbling at ferns. how lovely, the dewy spider web trembling in the breeze. if you stay a month you hate those same 3 trudging routes through mud and drizzle, wedged between farmers fields, funnelled down narrow routes between other peoples property, barely tolerated even there, no freedom to roam the big open spaces. bleak monocrop deserts of agribusiness, denuded of living things.