"Lands that have made or witnessed history possess peculiar fascination; and when to their historical qualities are added those of the mysterious and the beautiful, their charm is boundless, for they touch the realm of the imagination, that is to say, the infinite." John L. Stoddard's Lectures, 1879
"Lands that have made or witnessed history possess peculiar fascination; and when to their historical qualities are added those of the mysterious and the beautiful, their charm is boundless, for then they touch the realm of the imagination, that is to say, the infinite."
John L. Stoddard on Egypt, 1879
It looks something like a war zone, but no, nothing like that, it's just the far south side of Chicago. Beautiful, yet filthy and dead all over; waiting for trains.