Selected Aphorisms #53

The fifty-third installment in our epistolary new series.

Rilke says in one of his letters to the young poet, he says something like, “Rome is beautiful because all places are beautiful.” I get the root sentiment: that our capacity for pleasure is more reliant on internal, as opposed to external, factors. Having said that, I’m guessing Rilke never spent a long weekend in Gary.

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