« Thanks to its eccentric position, Berlin is ready for the eccentric. Its lack of form provides «leeway for unlimited possibilities.» Berlin is an experiment without hypothesis. Multiple identities enable it to absorb the other. This openness, however, is accompanied by ugliness. The city is direct, without any agreeableness whatsoever. It calls forth constant denial. It lacks self-confidence and a calm treatment of itself. It appears like the body of a masochist who is constantly submitting himself to new battering, destruction, humiliaton, and violence.»