Quotes:
“Moving across the city's great broken body”
I had to admit to myself that I lived for nights like these, moving across the city’s great broken body, making connections among its millions of cells. I had a crazy wish or fantasy that some day before I died, if I made all the right neural connections, the city would come all the way alive. Like the Bride of Frankenstein.
Ross MacDonald, 1968 from the book The Instant Enemy