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...des Artes remembers the weight of recent past, the Seine carries limbs twisting in the ironwork below. A few months later, I met a guy named Per in Sweden. Another tall dude. Per’s English was excellent, like most Swedes. He said ‘Hey’ in greeting, which I love. It’s actually hej, but, to an American, it sounds more like a hello from a long-lost friend. Within an...

...type of figurative language that describes one thing by comparing it to another thing. We find explicit forms of comparison in similes, which include words such as ‘like’ or ‘as’. But metaphors omit the ‘like’ or ‘as’ stage, and foreground the common qualities of the things compared in a way that is sometimes striking, but sometimes so ‘natural’ as to...

...type of the railroad hotel which in England so promptly shelters and so kindly soothes the fluttered exile. At Manchester, even more than at Liverpool, we are imagined in the immense railroad station hotel, which is indeed perhaps superorganized and over-convenienced after an American ideal: one does not, for instance, desire a striking, or even a ticking, clock in the...

...types' like the 'Immeuble-villa' (made real with the Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau of 1925), and the Maison Citrohan (a play on words suggesting the building industry should adopt the methods of the mass production automobile industry), which he hoped would solve the chronic housing problems of industrialised countries. His radical ideas were given full expression in his...