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| 8 | 1819 | One View more quotes about supposes">supposes it is largely a matter of that to which one grows accustomed. |
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| 8 | 1816 | On my former world, Earth, there are similar walks, but they are on the ground. |
| 8 | 1817 | Few of Earth would think twice about traversing such walks. |
| 8 | 1818 | On the other hand, if such walks were elevated, I suspect few would care to try them. |
| 8 | 1819 | One supposes it is largely a matter of that to which one grows accustomed. |
| 8 | 1820 | In any event, you traverse the high bridges with the same thoughtless nonchalance with which those of Earth traverse their own walks. |
| 8 | 1821 | Your bridges, slender and graceful, are often arched and curved, almost like branches in a forest, for you have an aesthetic sense, it seems, in so much that you do, evinced in things as intricate as the soaring melody of a skyline to things as simple as the carving on an oar or a wooden spoon. |
| 8 | 1822 | To be sure, you have your realms of crowding, ugliness, and danger as well, the dank, odorous, ill-lit insulae, steaming in the summer, clammy and cold in the winter, smelling of offal and urine, and the dark, cluttered, filthy, winding streets of some of the low districts. |