I'll have you know that I underwent the ritual, and it ordained me as fit to have only good opinions! If you read the fine print, a castle on a cliff is actually required under the terms of the Holy Rome Owners Association. What you're making in a year, I blow it in a week. Feel like a winner; where air is thinner; take it from me. A future we can all aspire to: "Become your best self. You can do it. We can help." These fun guys are now making all metropolitan stops. Been a long time gone, Leningrad. Why did Leningrad get the works? "It's even more exciting, not being able to see where they lead, don't you think?" You wanna know how I got these wings? Following the upheaval, life must go on. "The biblical Tower of Babel was built so high as to defy understanding. Those who built it began to talk nonsense. The tower could no longer be comprehended. There was simply too much of it." -Jon Bois, "Troy State 253, DeVry 141" a.k.a. "We're Serious About Success" (2017). Discard your ideas, replace them with orbs, for a spherical future! It was in the Vosges Mountains, they're famous for it. We need to claw back these resources before nature does it for us! At whose behest are the cities remade? At yours?! Come to the fortified city of Provins, guaranteed to be safe from armies with small-to-moderate siege capabilities! I touched the giant geodesic orb at the American Pavilion and all I got was this self-referential chost. "Tutto quello a cui riesco a pensare è prendere altre patatine!" -Every seagull in Venice, probably. A shady ne'er-do-well pulls himself from the ocean only to discover more than he bargained for. The material world is behind you. Ahead is the world of spirits. A bipedal cat, a degenerate, and a two-faced scoundrel welcome you to a world of illusion. Team Rocket takes a tumble from a castle into the trash. Yo, listen up here's a story about a little guy that lives in a stone world. An especially fresh fortress is appreciated more by its onlookers than by its inhabitant. "We've got to build our life on new foundations. We must get back to primeval integrity." -Eugène Ionesco, 1960. The Great Telescope of Birr meets the telescopes of the future. "Did you know? It is impossible to outrun your own reflection." -Celeste (2018) An array of threatening mirrors shine back to you the things you fear to see. On behalf of Battle Mountain's mayor, Isabelle is excited to welcome you to the neighborhood! In case of rampaging wall emergency, break Aleph. "The Thousand And One Nights is not something which has died. It is a book so vast that it is not necessary to have read it, for it is a part of out memory." -Tim Rogers (2020) quoting Eliot Weinberger's (1984) translation of Jorge Luis Borges (1980). A view from the ocean of the Hale Kai condominium complex, with a hearty salute ready for the next setting sun. "Another Sears will be an arcade, but every game is Sears." -Brandon Bird, 2022 But as the wind changed direction, and the temple band took fire, the crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive! "It grows harder from here," she warned the cat, but it dropped to the path and walked forward as though to say, 'You are wasting your time.' -Kij Johnson, 2016 The Eiffel Tower, manipulated to appear upside-down, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." 
