I didn’t even own a winter coat, let alone the Sorel Boots or Thinsulate gloves I would soon have to acquire. So what happens when one looks at the same place over and over again for nearly a quarter of a century, as I have done with the city of St. The pause may be of such short duration and the interest so fleeting that we may not be fully aware of having focused on any particular object we believe we have simply been looking at the general scene. Each pause is time enough to create an image of place that looms large momentarily in our view. As we look at a panoramic scene our eyes pause at points of interest. “Place is whatever stable object catches our attention. In Space and Place: The Perspective of Human Experience, Yi-Fu Tuan writes, If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains.Ĭan you describe the mood of St.
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