"When everything else has gone from my brain ... what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that." Annie Dillard
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Moving On
Today I leave Vienna, a city where time seems to have stopped. Time didn't stop for me, though. I celebrated my birthday here yesterday. But as I move on into another year, it's comforting to know that Vienna remains. A place of smokey cafes, quaint customs, careworn dignity. I'm looking for a picture that sums up this place -- and of course I can't find just one. Would it be St Stephansdom in the sunlight? An ancient walkway at the edge of the First District? A busy shopping street off Mariahilferstrasse? As I write these words, bells chime the hours. I'll miss the bells, too. You can hear them no matter where you are.