[-empyre-] Walter Benjamin Passagenwerk or the Arcades Project

[Ana Valdés]

My favorite bookshopowner called me today and he told me the copies of
Benjamin's book I bought from him will arrive on Monday. It made me
incredible happy. I think few intellectuals of this century thought so
broad and so deep about the homo urbanus, the persons inhabitating the
houses strolling the arcades and galleries, reading magazines and
newspapers in cofeeshops.
I come across a wonderful quote of Benjamin picked up by our friend Ethel
Baraona:
As Walter Benjamin wrote, we always have nostalgia of what is left behind.

Ana
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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with
your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always
long to return.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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