Reading Seattle by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780295983950
Publisher: University of Washington Press

And what I remember most about that night is the sensation of surprise. I had always considered it “my” alley; though I held no proper title, years of use and familiarity had made it mine, as distinct from the hundreds of other alleys in the city towards which I took no proprietary stance. And in “my alley” nothing could happen that I didn't countenance. But now a stranger had proved that it was his, too, and had shown just how insubstantial my claims of dominion actually were.

I learned, then, that the boundaries of lives, like those of places, are permeable, and that the truly fearsome inheres not in the exotic, but in the utterly familiar.

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