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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I've never found that in a city like NY (a place I love, but for very different reasons). There I've found that people connect as an antidote to its bustle. In London, people seem to use that bustle to disappear into their own solitude, in a most interesting way.
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I feel like that in every city (apart from Leeds now): because there is an ever-changing environment, with the noise and colour of the hordes all around you, and my brain is so occupied with processing it all - it can't manage consecutive thoughts about anything else in the present, and I go into a trance. I agree it's kind of liberating.
I'd like to see a good (and ambitous) author try to capture the 'spirit' of present-day London (in the same way that authors try to with New York), without resorting to chocolate-box stereotypes or just concentrating on the Asian communities, etc; that is unless it's already been done and I've missed it.