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"Accumulated literary associations add depth to the experience; place names become pegs for layers of commentaries, as in the Chinese culture. But at base the emotional pleasure is a heightened sense of the flow of time."

— Kevin A. Lynch What Time Is This Place? (1972)

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"To attempt to preserve all of the past would be life-denying."

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