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http://ducts.sundresspublications.com/content/essays/the-interminable-kiss/ The Webzine of Personal Stories Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 http://ducts.sundresspublications.com/content/essays/the-interminable-kiss/comment-page-1/#comment-2279 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:25:25 +0000 http://www.ducts.org/content/?p=2972#comment-2279 Edmund White has a beautiful little book called, “Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris.” Photo of a snow-covered park bench on the cover. I’ve always thought of alleys as the veins and arteries of a city, the things that keep it alive. They’re rarely glamorous–that’s the city’s task–but they’re always interesting. They have the imperative of carrying everything that makes a city live. Like the human body, the city can afford to specialize: the neighborhood of the rich, the neighborhood of the butchers, a neighborhood for each ethnic group. The alleys, out of sight in American even into the 1950s, when they gave hidden access to garages, phone and power lines, hidden passage to the milkman, left the front uncluttered for the presentation of a large and beautiful lawn, a welcoming presentation piece it was every father’s responsibility to maintain. Hooray for alleys, where we are always a part of our world, never apart from it.

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