CIRCUIT CITY

In a society where an individual’s only contract is with himself, the artificial time conception does not structure the days, but habits do. The habitual is what structures the city and is shared on a common ground where life happens through interaction: it needs to be static. In between the individuality flows efficiently on a network of parallel paths: it is continuous and smooth. An equilibrium is achieved, like pieces of a puzzle that intersect without overlapping: everyone is a component of the system that is never too full or too empty, but continuous.

I can feel at home even where I’m a stranger, for example in a hotel. My real home is my habits from which I cannot disregard if I want to give a direction to my life.

“Is it possibile to conceive a human being with more perfect health than myself?” In fact, such was the purity of his life, and such the happy condition of his situation, that no uncasy passion ever arose to excite him, nor care to harass, nor pain to awake him.

Repetition changes nothing in the object repeated, but does change something in the mind which contemplates it.

Tracing something unfamiliar back to something familiar alleviates us, calms us, pacifies us, and in addition provides a feeling of power. [...] The first representation that serves to explain the unfamiliar as familiar is so beneficial that we “take it to be true”.