Bokelskere.no

This was in one of those asphalted arenas where, in the heydey of cycling, the skill that children now learn from one another was taught as formal a fashion as driving an automobile is today. The arena was located in the country, near Glienicke; it dated from a time when sports and open air was not yet inseperable.

Finds are, for children, what victories are for adults. I had been looking for something that would have opened it up exclusively to me. With a single feather I would have taken possession of it--not only the island but also the afternoon, the journey from Sakrow on the ferry: all this, through my feather alone, would have fallen wholly and incontestably to me.

Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley.

"A remembered event is infinite, becuase it is merely a key to everything that happened before and after it.