the triumph (danger) of the city

But the city is danger; she becomes a megalopolis and doesn't ever stop; she petrifies the countryside into silence like Empires used to smother everything around them; on the ruins of the Nation-state, she rises monstrously, multi-national, transnational, supranational, cosmopolitan... and becomes the sole dehumanized structure of the human species.

NOTES OF THE URBAN PLANNER TO THE WORD SCRATCHER.
FILE NO. 20. SHEET XVI.
1988. SCHOELCHER LIBRARY.

- Patrick Chamoiseau, pg. 356, Texaco, trans. Rejouis & Vinokurov