“ Most world-historic events - great military battles, political revolutions-are self-consciously historic to the participants living through them. They act knowing that their decisions will be chronicl… Steven Johnson
“ March 1898What a strange dream I had last night! I wandered in the warm streets of a port, in the low quarter of some Barcelona or Marseille. The streets were noisome, with their freshly-heaped piles… Jean Lorrain
“ The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. Charles E. Rosenberg
