User:Gregor Samsa

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I was making for that city in the south of which it was said in our village:

'There you'll find queer folk! Just think, they never sleep!'

'And why not?'

'Because they never get tired.'

'And why not?'

'Because they are fools.'

'Don't fools get tired?'

'How could fools get tired!'

--Franz Kafka, Children On a Country Road

The districts of this city could correspond to the whole spectrum of diverse feelings that one encounters by chance in everyday life.

Bizarre Quarter -- Happy Quarter (specially reserved for habitation) -- Noble and Tragic Quarter (for good children) -- Historical Quarter (museums, schools) -- Useful Quarter (hospital, tool shops) --Sinister Quarter, etc. And an Astrolaire which would group plant species in accordance with the relations they manifest with the stellar rhythm, a planetary garden comparable to that which the astronomer Thomas wants to establish at Laaer Berg in Vienna. Indispensable for giving the inhabitants a consciousness of the cosmic. Perhaps also a Death Quarter, not for dying in but so as to have somewhere to live in peace.

--Ivan Chtcheglov, Formulary for a New Urbanism