"The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace."

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Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

— John Steinbeck