“It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.”
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Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
