Sublime

But Jacaranda couldn’t face New York. New York had Max in it. She’d be bound to run smack into him just walking down the street. What was so great about L.A. was that you never ever ran into anyone by accident, only purposely. Nobody was “at large” on the streets; there were too many streets, and people were either inside their cars or home.

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‘She was the wife of John Bell, who owned Lowlands until his death in 1889, and we’ve never known anything more about her: it’s as if she’s been cut out of time. We have records of their marriage, but not of her death; we have no portraits of her anywhere, and when the house and contents were sold none of her possessions were listed in the inventor

John Stilgoe, a professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the author of several books, including Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places. Stilgoe believes the power of acute observation is one of nature’s most useful learning tools.