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As a time machine, the body holds both ancestral knowledge and trauma: “My body is a kind of necropolitan cradle, a museum blazing on the inside of the world’s last night circus.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2022

And always in contrast with these necropolitan streets, these masks of human dwellings, were Michael's own thoughts thronged with fancies of himself and Lily.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton