Alternative Walks through Hong Kong
"Almost every aspect of modern life is there, both for good and for ill - our sense of speed, drama, aggression, the worlds of advertising and consumer goods, engineering and mass manufacture, and the shared experience of moving together through an elaborately signalled landscape." - JG Ballard
"The notion was to cut a crude V into the sprawl of the city... to walk out... recording and retrieving the messages on walls, lampposts, doorjambs: the spites and spasms of an increasingly deranged populace." - Iain Sinclair
"It cannot be conceived in its entirety but can be experienced only as a wilderness of alleys and passages, courts and thoroughfares, in which even the most experienced citizen may lose the way; it is curious, too, that this labyrinth is in a continual state of change and expansion." - Peter Ackroyd
"While we all want to unpick this conundrum, the manner in which the contemporary world warps the relationship between psyche and place, the ways in which we go about the task, are various." - Will Self
"Not having the means to undertake the trip, the next best thing was to live it imaginatively, which I proceeded to do at odd moments...Often, on returning to my studio at midnight, I would stand at the table and register in this celestial sort of ledger the innumberable little items which constitute a writer's book-keeping: dreams, plans of attack and defence, remembrances, titles of books I intended to write, names and addresses of potential creditors, obsessive phrases, editors to harry, battlefields, monuments, monastic retreats and so on... It seems a pity now that I didn't write an account of that imaginary journey... what a different book it would have been!" - Henry Miller
"The notion was to cut a crude V into the sprawl of the city... to walk out... recording and retrieving the messages on walls, lampposts, doorjambs: the spites and spasms of an increasingly deranged populace." - Iain Sinclair
"It cannot be conceived in its entirety but can be experienced only as a wilderness of alleys and passages, courts and thoroughfares, in which even the most experienced citizen may lose the way; it is curious, too, that this labyrinth is in a continual state of change and expansion." - Peter Ackroyd
"While we all want to unpick this conundrum, the manner in which the contemporary world warps the relationship between psyche and place, the ways in which we go about the task, are various." - Will Self
"Not having the means to undertake the trip, the next best thing was to live it imaginatively, which I proceeded to do at odd moments...Often, on returning to my studio at midnight, I would stand at the table and register in this celestial sort of ledger the innumberable little items which constitute a writer's book-keeping: dreams, plans of attack and defence, remembrances, titles of books I intended to write, names and addresses of potential creditors, obsessive phrases, editors to harry, battlefields, monuments, monastic retreats and so on... It seems a pity now that I didn't write an account of that imaginary journey... what a different book it would have been!" - Henry Miller
The Walks
1 Castle Peak Road
2 The Boundary
3 The Border
4 Reclaimed Land
5 The Terminals
6 The Lost Rivers
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