BY ORHAN PAMUK
All happy
cities resemble one another, to paraphrase what Tolstoy famously observed of
families, but each melancholy city is melancholy in its own way.
The saudade of
Lisbon, the tristeza of Burgos, the mufa of Buenos Aires, the mestizia of
Turin, the Traurigkeit of Vienna, the ennui of Alexandria, the ghostliness of Prague,
the glumness of Glasgow, the dispiritedness of Boston share only on the surface
a common sense of melancholy.
--The Washington Post
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