"...on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity, and under the eye of Heaven..."
"The streets lie straight up and down the hills, and straight across at right angles, these in sun, those in shadow..."
"...the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly..."
"...until one has known the wilderness one cannot begin to understand the cities."
“…between them is a swarm of gondolas.”
"...Petersburg... all the powers bestowed on her by Heaven..."
“The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death.” “Of death, perhaps.”
