Timothy Materer wrote:

> And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far
> from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after
> squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry,
> for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Well, thank you very much, it's not that many days have an unexpected
little piece of EP beauty land in their middle.  Weirdly enough, I found
myself striving clumsily for an eerily almost-identical word-picture in
March of this year (different city though): check out the last para in
http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/18/Cities

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Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)