san francisco

[Rich]

With instant video, all consuming digital documentation, we are killing off our eventual and much needed longing for the past since we have such easy access to it.

Can anyone tell the difference between recent years? Everything is leveled. All those mysteries have become certainties, our despair.


On Jul 24, 2013, at 3:42 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nearly everything.
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> 2013/7/23 Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
>> Nostalgia was better then.
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>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:22 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Stumbling over a short passage in a polit thriller from more than 40 years ago, I remembered a short thread here about the gentrification of SF (mildly put as memories like to do). Here is the paragraph:
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>>> I signed the bill, adding a 20 percent tip, which made the bellhop happy or at least less morose. After he left I mixed a drink and stood by the window gazing out over the city with its bridge in the background. It was one of those spectacularly fine days that San Francisco manages to come up with sometimes in early September: a few quiet clouds, an indulgent sun, and air so sparkling that you know somebody 's eventually going to bottle it. I stood there in my room on the seventeenth floor and sipped the scotch and stared out at what was once touted as America's favorite city. Maybe it still is. 
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