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• ... returns to the place of one's love, year after year, in the wrong season, with no guarantee of being loved back. For, like every virtue, fidelity is of value only so long as it is instrintive or idiosyncratic, rather than rational. Besides, at a certain age, and in a certain line of work at that, to be loved back is not exactly imperative. Love is a selfless sentiment, a one-way street. That's why it is possible to love cities, architecture per se, music, dead poets, or given a particular temperament, a deity. For love is an affair between a reflection and its object. This is in the end what brings one back to this city - the way the tide brings the Adriatic and, by extension, the Atlantic and the Baltic. At any rate, objects don't ask questions: as long as the element exists, their r... (查看原文)

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