Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.
タグ: look, time, sky, life

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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
タグ: close, theatre, power, religion
A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
タグ: mindless, often, mob, said
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.
タグ: sudden, chief, characteristics, mob
Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.
タグ: point, most, some, police
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.
タグ: tone, his, career, always
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