Linda Lappin Quotes

#1. Beyond that door lies an unknown world...where we can become immortal if we choose

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#2. In the 16th century,parks and gardens were models of the cosmos and also tools for altering one's consciousness, possibly for changing one's destiny.

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#3. The soul of place is like an invisible net --or a force field -- cast up at times from within a house, neighborhood, or landscape to draw us into its labyrinthine folds.

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#4. The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape.

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#5. What better way to read the landscape than by walking through it?

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#6. Entering a garden like Bomarzo was like succumbing to a dream. Every detail was intended to produce a specific effect on the mind and body, to excite and soothe the senses like a drug. To awaken the unconscious self.

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#7. There was a blinding flash of magnesium and a smell of singed hair and dust. A green light flared in the boar's glass eye.

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#8. In the murky puddle of rainwater collected at the entrance of the tomb, I spied my own reflection,a dark, hatted figure against a pewter sky.

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#9. The statues carved here may be viewed as fragments of consciousness itself, or the residue of violent emotions

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#10. A deep map is a sample swatch of the multiple manifestations of the genius loci.

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