Norbiton (25)

By: Toby Ferris

There is a ball, yes there is a ball; but there is, above all else, an occult disposition.

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Norbiton (21)

By: Toby Ferris

My book was called The Roots of Ornament, but I see now that it should have been called The Rootlessness of Ornament.

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Norbiton (18)

By: Toby Ferris

The five of us might suddenly be adrift in a lifeboat, having just cast lots to see who eats whom.

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Norbiton (17)

By: Toby Ferris

In time, the animating principle of the city will be expressed in an evolved monstrosity…

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Norbiton (16)

By: Toby Ferris

…it is a system, let us allow, that is closer to love than we generally care to acknowledge.

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Norbiton (15)

By: Toby Ferris

Under certain conditions — in a garden, in the Ideal City, in a garden of the Ideal City — objects of knowledge achieve weightlessness.

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Norbiton (12)

By: Toby Ferris

Or was I—a deeper or possible more pragmatic fear—merely a clause or a term in someone else’s contract?

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