dis.appointment dayi'm re-reading eat, pray, love and yesterday evening i got to the part where she's talking about her italian friend's theory that every city has a word. if the city's word and your personal word don't match you will never truly be at home in that city. in the book rome's word is SEX. new yorks word is ACHIEVE while los angeles is SUCCEED.
so i was thinking. what is san francisco's word?
i'm not sure if it's right but i came up with BE. or perhaps IRREVERENT. i'd love to get some opinions on this.
what is the word of this pastel, lego-land on the ocean? where we've embraced public nudity, public drunkenness and public urination? what word for this city of a million hills, a million spectacular views and a million kinds of fog? what word for north beach, the mission, haight st, and the castro smashed up together in 7x7.... and all the music, parades, street fairs and street dwellers?
what word for all of us cheerfully living on a fault line?
L.O.V.E.
It's funny...I did the same thing last time I read Eat, Pray, Love, and I too thought that San Francisco's word would be "BE"
ReplyDeleteAnd that is why I love this city so much.
FREEDOM
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