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everything soft, and white, and powdery
Tramping through the fresh snow, everything soft and white and powdery. Like daylight the snow lies unequivocally on everything. Six bursting, screeching, whumphing shapes pass overhead like white explosions and resolve themselves, by a process ...read more
hot pink banners
Tomorrow I take the train back to Berlin, traversing again this ancestral landscape. What a beautiful week it's been, I'm so thankful. A girl in a sunstruck cafe told me that Denmark is the happiest ...read more
gaga for vintage
Today I found a vintage store which glowed like a lit jewel box. Tried on this swishy 1960s poolside gown and just as I was leaving, with it wrapped under my arm, an intricately worked ...read more
Neil Young’s baby
This cafe has changed its muserly, miserly, whispery music for Neil Young. He owns the business. His voice is quiet but sure and it penetrates. People gain confidence in such good musical hands, or seem ...read more
through snow
a bell dings behind me, I step aside and watch the beautiful line of a bicycle's tyres, drawing like dark pencil on white paper through the snow  
København
København magical, sunken in the deep, dark water like a turtle from the undersea land, and all of these strangers (to me) riding the waves on its back. The water stretches away into the dark, ...read more
finally, in Europe
I'm in Copenhagen. It's so beautiful. Went out walking in the albert-full moon and feel I am finally in Europe. Everything built is fine & old, and all of the landscape is sculpted. The soil ...read more
manhood: let’s rejoice
Six beautiful teenage men were doing parkour across the roof of the sunken restrooms by the harbour. Ropes gently knocking against masts, land-passengers drowsing at cafe tables in the sun, and this buoyant half-dozen pruning ...read more
his three favourite things
Hired a bike and visited my only friend in Denmark, who runs a beautiful second-hand store that sells his three favourite things: books, and records, and coffee. He has two splendid crimson armchairs and windows ...read more