When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch, and fills the whole... Country with extravagant Fancies, imaginary Distempers, and terrifying Dreams. In the mean time, the poor Wretch that is the innocent Occasion of so many Evils begins to be frighted at her self, and sometimes confesses secret Commerces and Familiarities that her Imagination forms in a delirious old Age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. REL...ATIONSHIP.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman stat...e of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and se...ts the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humour. It is naked noise and naked malice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan c...ondition--hyper-density--without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to deve...lop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of ...a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has ...been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Otis's apparatus recovers the uncounted planes that have been floating in the thin air of speculation and reveals their superiorit...y in a metropolitan paradox: the greater the distance from the earth, the closer the communication with what remains of nature (i.e. light and air). The elevator is the ultimate self-fulfilling prophecy: the further up it goes, the more undesirable the circumstances it leaves behind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »