The World We Make
Any New Yorker can feel like a god whether they’re an avatar or not, Veneza figures. They just need a rooftop and time.
N. K. Jemisin • The World We Make
It’s a metaphysical paradigm shift, a background process switchover from the perspective of a small flesh-and-blood human being into something vaster, stranger, many-minded. One of the reasons she and the others became cities is precisely because they are capable of making this leap of identity; they are not driven mad by the sudden ability to see
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Play wit idea of not a jump frpm ego to unity but has levels along the way like sub systems connecting together thats what this team is each can see and feel their borough and each other to make a larger whole but not yet a ubity
I should probably also thank current NYC mayor Eric Adams for motivating me to finish the book because that way my city at least gets a good mayor in my imagination, but nah fuck him.